Distance Education Law and Legal Definition
According to 20 USCS § 1003(6)(A), the term “distance education” means
“education that uses one or more of the technologies described in subparagraph (B)--(i) to deliver instruction to students who are separated from the instructor; and
(ii) to support regular and substantive interaction between the students and the instructor, synchronously or asynchronously.
(B) Inclusions. For the purposes of subparagraph (A), the technologies used may include--
(i) the Internet;
(ii) one-way and two-way transmissions through open broadcast, closed circuit, cable, microwave, broadband lines, fiber optics, satellite, or wireless communications devices;
(iii) audio conferencing; or
(iv) video cassettes, DVDs, and CD-ROMs, if the cassettes, DVDs, or CD-ROMs are used in a course in conjunction with any of the technologies listed in clauses (i) through (iii).”
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