Distance Education
What is Distance Education?
Distance Education is the form of studies, which allows you to plan your learning process on your own.
To get a higher education nowadays is quite easy – getting education distantly you can make up the schedule of your studies yourself, combining studies and work, or family life. Distance learning is a progressive form of getting education commonly chosen by busy people. You will save your time, aquire new profession and rise your competitiveness in the eyes of your employer!
Does distance learning suit you?
Choosing Distance Education, you should have proper motivation and responsibility to study the subject chosen on your own.
Reflect on the issue what the level of your knowledge and skills is, what interests, desires and needs you have. You have to be ready to study on your own, and in this case your only „examinator” will be you yourself.
The ones, who study distantly, are „autonomous students”, therefore, it is essential that you take active part in the process of getting knowledge in terms of this form of studies.
If you always approach all the tasks actively and creatively, if you are ready to take responsibility for achieving your aims in studies and you can substantiate your point of view, then distance learning is what you need!
Distance Education in Latvia.
The pros of Distance Education around the world have been well-known for a long time; and eventually the popularity of this form of education has reached Latvia as well.
In Latvia Distance Education had become of current importance in the 90-ies of the 20-th century. Traditionally Distance Education has been regarded as the form of education, the basis of which is a self-study without any direct and continuous contact with the academic personnel. In accordance with Education Law of Latvia Distance Education is defined as a subtype of education by correspondence.
The teaching model, applied at CBA, has got a scientific acknowledgement. Its topcality and usefulness had been proved in the doctoral dissertation of college director Ineta Kristovska („Distance Education System Management in the Process of Enhancing Adults’ Competence”).
What is the origin of Distance Education?
Distance Education started to develop at the end of the 19-th century, although people were spending their spare time on getting additional knowledge earlier as well. It is thought that distance education appeared first in 1728. The proof of that is the material published in the newspaper “Boston Gazette” on March 20, 1728: “The teacher Caleb Philip offers the opportunity to get knowledge, learning materials regularly (once a week) by post.” This process was called a New Method of Short Hand. After a hundred years (1833) similar advertisements appeared also in the Swedish newspaper “Lunds Nekoblad”. In 1840 distance education was started being used in England. The major merit here belongs to Isaak Pitman: his students were translating the fragments of the Bible and sending them for corrections by post. This method was combined with the internal studies of Holy Writ; later special tasks had been made. A new form of learning had become the basis and the beginning for the establishment of Isaak Pitman’s Correspondence College.
Germans borrowed the traditions of distance education from English: in 1856 a Frenchman, Charles Toussaint, and a German, Gustav Langenscheidt, founded a correspondence school in Berlin, where one could acquire languages.
In America the founder of the system of distance education was Anna Eliot Ticknor, who established and from 1873 till 1897 was the head of the so-called “home learning school” Boston-based Society to Encourage Study at Home. The basis of studies was the exchange of letters among students and a teacher as well as specially made tests.
Approximately at the same time (1882) distance learning was also being created in Japan.
And now this form of education is available for any of us!
Distance Education is the form of studies, which allows you to plan your learning process on your own.
To get a higher education nowadays is quite easy – getting education distantly you can make up the schedule of your studies yourself, combining studies and work, or family life. Distance learning is a progressive form of getting education commonly chosen by busy people. You will save your time, aquire new profession and rise your competitiveness in the eyes of your employer!
Does distance learning suit you?
Choosing Distance Education, you should have proper motivation and responsibility to study the subject chosen on your own.
Reflect on the issue what the level of your knowledge and skills is, what interests, desires and needs you have. You have to be ready to study on your own, and in this case your only „examinator” will be you yourself.
The ones, who study distantly, are „autonomous students”, therefore, it is essential that you take active part in the process of getting knowledge in terms of this form of studies.
If you always approach all the tasks actively and creatively, if you are ready to take responsibility for achieving your aims in studies and you can substantiate your point of view, then distance learning is what you need!
Distance Education in Latvia.
The pros of Distance Education around the world have been well-known for a long time; and eventually the popularity of this form of education has reached Latvia as well.
In Latvia Distance Education had become of current importance in the 90-ies of the 20-th century. Traditionally Distance Education has been regarded as the form of education, the basis of which is a self-study without any direct and continuous contact with the academic personnel. In accordance with Education Law of Latvia Distance Education is defined as a subtype of education by correspondence.
The teaching model, applied at CBA, has got a scientific acknowledgement. Its topcality and usefulness had been proved in the doctoral dissertation of college director Ineta Kristovska („Distance Education System Management in the Process of Enhancing Adults’ Competence”).
What is the origin of Distance Education?
Distance Education started to develop at the end of the 19-th century, although people were spending their spare time on getting additional knowledge earlier as well. It is thought that distance education appeared first in 1728. The proof of that is the material published in the newspaper “Boston Gazette” on March 20, 1728: “The teacher Caleb Philip offers the opportunity to get knowledge, learning materials regularly (once a week) by post.” This process was called a New Method of Short Hand. After a hundred years (1833) similar advertisements appeared also in the Swedish newspaper “Lunds Nekoblad”. In 1840 distance education was started being used in England. The major merit here belongs to Isaak Pitman: his students were translating the fragments of the Bible and sending them for corrections by post. This method was combined with the internal studies of Holy Writ; later special tasks had been made. A new form of learning had become the basis and the beginning for the establishment of Isaak Pitman’s Correspondence College.
Germans borrowed the traditions of distance education from English: in 1856 a Frenchman, Charles Toussaint, and a German, Gustav Langenscheidt, founded a correspondence school in Berlin, where one could acquire languages.
In America the founder of the system of distance education was Anna Eliot Ticknor, who established and from 1873 till 1897 was the head of the so-called “home learning school” Boston-based Society to Encourage Study at Home. The basis of studies was the exchange of letters among students and a teacher as well as specially made tests.
Approximately at the same time (1882) distance learning was also being created in Japan.
And now this form of education is available for any of us!