E-Learning

Point 1. From the History of Distance Education
1840
The United Kingdom
Isaak Pitman
He was the grandfather of the 1. distance course.
He educated students to do shorthand by postmail.

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The 50s of the 19. century
Germany
Gustav Langenscheid.
He published his “EDUCATING LETTERS”.
It was the self-learning course of the native language.

Point 1. From the History of Distance Education
1836
The United Kingdom
London University
The students could get the higher education by postmail.

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The 70s of the 19 century
America
Ann Eliot Ticnor
She made up a mail education system for women called “Ticnor Community”.

Point 1. From the History of Distance Education
1911
Australia
Postmail courses at the Quinsland University.

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1917
Russia
It was worked out the consulting model of distance education called “EDUCATION WITHOUT VISUAL CONTACT”.

Point 1. From the History of Distance Education
1969
The United Kingdom
It was founded the UKOU
(United Kingdom Open University).

Point 1. From the History of Distance Education
3 generations of DE:
First generation
Second generation
Third generation

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The first generation:
The study material is written by hand or printed by typewriting machine.
Radio- and TV-courses.

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2. The second generation:
There were worked out many complex courses in the UKOU.
There were used printed material and audio-and video-kassettes.
The communication between students and tutors was face-to-face.

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3. The third generation:
Our days.
It is used the last net-technologies.
The communication between students and tutors may be in different formats.

Point 2. The legal regulation of e-learning in russia
The history of legal regulation of e-learning in Russia started in 1993.

Point 2. The legal regulation of e-learning in russia
In 1995 were adopted :
The Concept of building and developing the DE System in Russia.
The Federal program of DE developing in Russia.
The Federal Centre of DE System in Russia.
Developing program of federal legislation oriented to DE developing.

Point 2. The legal regulation of e-learning in russia
1997 – 2002 took place an experiment of using the Distance Education Technologies in Russia.
The results of the experiment showed the necessity and importance of DE.

Point 2. The legal regulation of e-learning in russia
The results of experiment defined the main directions of developing the DE and its methods in Russia.