Distance LearningDistance education has its roots in 1840, when Sir Isaac Pitman, the English inventor of shorthand, had the idea of ​​providing instruction to a potentially unlimited audience: courses by post. In 1900, the first correspondence teaching department was established at the University of Chicago. The founding of the UK's Open University in 1969 marked a significant development in the latest phase of distance learning involving a mixed media approach to teaching (Matthews 1999). Distance education occurs when a teacher and student are separated by physical distance and technology. (in the form of print, voice, video and/or data) is used to bridge the educational gap. (Willis & Dickinson 1997) Today, in addition to serving the student living away from campus, distance education is aimed at part-time students, time-pressed adults, and students seeking to work full-time while pursuing their degree. degree. Virtual classrooms are not aimed at the traditional market of university students, but at disciplined adult students. The benefits these students gain include: greater access to higher learning, flexible scheduling of personal time, convenient location, personalized attention from the instructor, less travel, and more time to think and answer questions posed by the instructor. , distance education seems to be working. With few exceptions, most research writings suggest that the learning outcomes of students using distance technology are similar to those of students participating in conventional classroom instruction. The finding “no significant difference” was accepted as a fact. But the... center of the card... Steven P. Crow. Available: WWW URL: http://www.aaup.org/319let.htm Phipps, Ronald and Merisotis, James (1999). What's the difference? A review of contemporary research on the effectiveness of distance learning in higher education. Available: WWW URL: http://www.aaup.org/319let.htmSchneider, Alison (1999). AAUP seeks greater role for faculty in distance education. Chronicle of Higher Education, 45(42), p. A34.Sherry, L. (1996). Problems in distance learning. International Journal of Educational Telecommunications, 1(4), pp. 337-365. Willis, Barry and Dickinson, John (1997). Distance education and the World Wide Web. In Khan (ed.), Web-based instruction, (pp. 81-84). Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; Educational technology publications. Willis, Barry (1992). Strategies for distance learning. ERIC document reproduction services n. AND 351 007.