remote learning

Education from afar

Remote learning is education conducted when students and instructors are in different physical locations, typically connected through technology.

The term covers everything from correspondence courses to video lectures to interactive online classrooms.

Many schools shifted to remote learning during the pandemic.

Also called distance learning or online learning.

Opposites
physical presence

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Instruction in a school setting

classroom instruction · hands-on learning

institutional structure

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Residential academic institution

traditional schooling

Family

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