Establishing distance education: the tools, challenges and experiences

The Internet has detained the public imagination. It is readily evident that the huge prospective of present technology will influence not just the location of the educational process, but also its occasion-time, place, content, context and form of interactions. These changes have an effect on the education background. Nowadays the technology of online digital libraries, open course collections of web pages, online courses and classes abroad has invaded the public cultural awareness of conducting education and training at distances. In a lot of distance education conferences researchers - educators discuss the adaptation of new technology to online settings of courses that are being offered from distance. Nevertheless, the actual transformative potential of web technology for education reform is still not well understood. The promise of the Internet to deeply modify the structure of education is not without its problems yet. The technology cannot immediately cause changes in centuries old traditions. Much of what is now available online is merely content based on the same old educational principle of driving knowledge into the student's head. The main advantage of distance education is that knowledge can be distributed from the educators to the students from anytime and anywhere. Recorded and online lectures (audio/video), online group meetings, discussion and assessments are just few on the tools that will help the implementation of distance education. This study will assist in establishing Distance Education program through the tools, challenges and practical experiences done at South East European University.