Distance Education

Today I learned what is Distance Education, the advantage that it has and the tools that we can use in order to improve our knowledge.
For me, Distance Education is to obtain the knowledge in a different way that in the past. It means that in Distance Education the learners are not dependent from the teacher, in this type of education learners are free to learn in the speed that they want, because they can obtain the information whatever they want and also they have more tools in order to reinforce the knowledge.
The advantages that it has is that the learners don't need to go to the classroom because they learn through the technology.
In the last class we saw many of the tools that we can use for Distance Education like: WEB 2.0, Blackboard and others.
Distance Education help us as future teachers to create a distance course to these students that cannot come to the classroom and we as teachers can design many activities in order to help students to learn through internet.