Effectiveness of Distance Education Technology

Done by:Ameena Al-Rawahi.Roqaia Al-Hashmi.Laila Al-Tobi.

Viewpoint 1Study Name: Distance Learning in North Dakota: A Cross-Technology Study of

the Schools, Administrators, Coordinators, Instructors, and Students with

Two-Way Interactive Television, Audiographic Tele-Learning, and Instruction

by Satellite.

Author: Hobbs, 1990.

Audience: North Dakota schools’ administrators, programs coordinators,

students and remote instructors.

Abstract: "...no discernible difference between distance learning and

traditional foreign language achievement attributable to the specific distance

learning technologies used."

Viewpoint 2Study Name: Effectiveness and Cost on Interactive Videodisc in Defense Training and

Education.

Author: Fletcher, 1990.

Audience: Defense training and in the related settings of industrial training and higher education.

Objectives: Compared Conventional instruction with IVDI in terms of achievement, effectiveness and cost effective.

Abstract: "Compared with conventional instruction, IVDI in military training (24 studies)

increased achievement to 65%; in higher education (14 studies) increased

achievement to 75%; increased achievement in both knowledge and performance

measures, to 64%. The more 'interactivity' built into IVDI, the more effective the

resulting instruction. IVDI was more effective than computer-assisted without videodisc

interaction. IVDI may increase time on task and did not effect longer term retention...

IVDI was less costly and more cost effective than conventional instruction."

Conclusion

From our view of point, It is not what but when, how and whom.

Traditional and Distance education are all work depend on the situation and circumstances.