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Distance Education History and Technology

This little self-quiz helps check your knowledge of key concepts in the past, present, and future of distance teaching and learning. Click on squares to match items. Click on NEW GAME until you're sure you've practiced all possible matching pairs.


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Made higher education available to working adults, largely through correspondence and distance learningOpen University
The "surprise" technology that made the PC revolution possibleMicrochip
Short programs you download and install in your Browser to allow you to play multimedia files via the InternetPlug-Ins
Ditance education method represented by SocratesTravelling teacher
"Immersive" technology for entertaining and education that puts learners in a life-like simulated environmentVirtual Reality
Distance education system based on 2-way radio communication School of the Air
Studio-based distance technology represented by Oklahoma's OneNet system2-way Videoconferencing
Country where the Open University first developedGreat Britain
Distance communication and learning technology that originated as a means of pretecting military communicationInternet
Distance education technology that is still viable in developing countries to take learning facilities to remote villagesPortable classrooms
The likely next big leap in computer technology; beyond the silicon-based microchipMolecular or Nano-Computers
The technology expected to solve the Internet "bandwidth problem" when it is universally availableFiberoptics
A computer-generated "servant" that can carry out your instructions in an advanced computing systemIntelligent Agent
Country where the School of the Air educated children in remote areasAustralia
Graphic file types used to put pictures and images on the Internet.jpg and .gif
Distance education technology that showed great promise but never reached its potential due to high costsSatellite