Distance Learning

"Distance learning" which is also called remote learning is not new. In America, for
example, more than one third of university students take at least one course via
distance education according to "The National Centre for Education Statistics". In fact
such kind of education usually has many benefits to count. However, with a pandemic
like corona virus distance learning has gained a whole new light. Thus, distance
learning has become a priority and it confirms three benefits for educational institutions. 
  
   First, distance learning is the viable, safe, and academic alternative choice to ensure
the health of the students and the staff. Online education accessibility protects the
members in educational institutions and halts wide spreading of such highly contagious
infectious disease by keeping distancing. It's the academic process that allows students
get the competencies and objectives, learn, and achieve tasks all abroad while they are
homes safe. This protection is a necessity for it covers a wide segment of the society
that counts in such encounter and saves students as well.

   Secondly, distance learning improves the technological skills for teaching staffs and
students as well. Educational institutions that have prioritized online education have
been obliged to establish or depend reliable accessible online education platforms that
make remote learning applicable by teachers and students. In addition, teachers have
worked on enhancing snd developing their technological knowledge to comply with such
platforms and processes . Fortunately, students have gained planning and research
skills that add up to their experiences as a result of their interacting with such
technological educational process. 

   Thirdly, although students are not attending classrooms where they are used to be
watched and guided by a teacher, students receive high quality videos and rich lectures
in attractive framework that match most intelligence types and personal requirements.
Videos that are created by the teachers usually include authentic live examples, vivid
illustrations, captions, audio descriptions, and interesting music. All these characteristics
can effectively match linguistic, spatial, logical, and musical types if intelligences. Also
online meetings with teachers and classmates can match interpersonal intelligence and
provoke a type of social integration. Finally, distance learning flexible nature can grant
the student a personal space and freedom of choice when they can prioritize their daily
activities and they can postpone an assignment or certain lecture for the expense of a
family activity or practicing a talent instead. In brief, videos and lectures that are sent
through distance learning by teachers can be repeated to fit students' own schedules.

   To sum up, distance learning has become an optimal choice in the presence of
corona virus  that ensures continuing learning safely. It also improves student's and
teacher's technological skills. Finally, it matches many types of intelligences and 
personal needs for the students . In my opinion such way of learning is a treasure that
secure safety in case of any possible virus or disaster in the future and it must be
preserved as a means of education.