Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Distance Education

Education via communication media (correspondence, radio, television, computer networks) with little or no in-person face-to-face contact between students and teachers. (ERIC Thesaurus, 1997)

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Abstract

Education via communication media (correspondence, radio, television, computer networks) with little or no in-person face-to-face contact between students and teachers. (ERIC Thesaurus, 1997)

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Synonyms

11 entry terms
  • Education, Distance
  • Correspondence Courses
  • Distance Learning
  • Online Education
  • Online Learning
  • Correspondence Course
  • Course, Correspondence
  • Education, Online
  • Learning, Distance
  • Learning, Online
  • Online Educations

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10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

do not confuse with COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION

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History Note

1999; for CORRESPONDENCE COURSES see EDUCATION 1978-1998

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  1. I02w.195w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Distance Education. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D020375. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D020375
  2. Distance Education. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_education
  3. Distance Education. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159595