History and value of Distance Learning-Engineer Ruwan Dissanayake

The University of London was the first university to offer distance learning degrees, establishing its External Programme in 1858. The background to this innovation lay in the fact that the institution (later known as University College London) was non-denominational and, given the intense religious rivalries at the time, there was an outcry against the "godless" university. The issue soon boiled down to which institutions had degree-granting powers and which institutions did not.

Distance education or long-distance learning is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school. Traditionally, this usually involved correspondence courses wherein the student corresponded with the school via post. Today it involves online education. A distance learning program can be completely distance learning, or a combination of distance learning and traditional classroom instruction (called hybrid or blended). Massive open online courses (MOOCs), offering large-scale interactive participation and open access through the World Wide Web or other network technologies, are recent developments in distance education. A number of other terms (distributed learning, e-learning, online learning, virtual classroom etc.) are used roughly synonymously with distance education.

I also have an Engineering degree from The Open University of Sri Lanka, whole life has began from the university thus it has fulfilled my life with different strategic events. I'm really open to share my knowledge and the various techniques used for the distance education , it is worthy to learn these steps in a proper manner because with the technology people need to learn fast without having strong push as it is also very vital for the companies to hire people with self motivation, energetic, thoughtful, powerful etc.  not only Engineers all other professional categories also will have their own characteristic structure with these techniques.

Hope you all will interesting to learn with the experience of mine of Distance Education in next letter.