Basics of Distance Education (DE)

The course is a core course of various Master degree educational programmes on Education, Educational Technologies, ICTs in Education, Applied Informatics in Education. It can be useful for LLP programmes in ICTs in Education, Distance Education and Instructional Design as well. The course gives both theoretical and practical knowledge on distance learning systems, outlines legal basis for DE in different countries, analyses experiences and practices of DE around the world at different educational levels and subject areas, presents the main principles and model of DE and specifies the potential of ICTs and web 2.0 in education.