Online Education Online Education

Introduction

Due to rapid revolution in information technology and the increasing amount of information and data transmitted and swapped in the globe, it became impracticable for any individual to facilitate with the widespread use of the Internet and enjoy its features, appeared online for the first time in the mid-nineties as a mediator of communication between learner and teacher, has led to the emergence of distance learning via the Internet, and virtual universities Virtual Universities, schools and the default Virtual Schools, and Virtual Classroom Virtual Classrooms, and thus began to take shape the concept of learning based on the internet as a new model of distance learning and a form of online or e-education.

Junk, Virginia, Deringer, Nancy & William, (2011), Techniques to engage the online learner, Research in Higher Education Journal; Mar2011, Vol. 10, p1-15

Online education as the use of technology concerning the modern Internet or satellites or radio or videos or TV or CDs or video conferencing or e-mail or a direct dialogue between the parties over the Internet in the educational process, also known as some e-learning as a kind of learning that depends on the use of computer technology and networks by the learner, where such means include all the new mechanisms of communication such as: computer networks, multimedia and e-content and search engines, electronic libraries and classrooms connected to the Internet. In light of the above can be said that the intended e-learning in general, use of modern technology related to computers and the Internet to make learning less time and effort and the greatest benefit.

Moloney, Jacqueline F., (2010), Scaling Online Education: Increasing Access to Higher Education, Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks; Mar2010, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p79-94

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The e-learning or online education is the use of information technologies and communication technologies (ICT) to ...