Real-time Distance Education

Description: Distance learning provides access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and distance, or both.

Notes: In the context of today’s advances in technology, there are many ways/systems which schools can use to communicate directly with students who are not able to be in their classrooms. These range from bespoke software such as that developed by Bednet (http://www.bednet.be/), to much more basic solutions, such as Skype (http://www.skype.com/en/), Big Blue Button, Google Hangouts(See Appendix A), Facebook, Edmodo, or the PSO Portal (which is used in Italy to support HHE: http://pso.istruzione.it/).