Distance Education and the Dissemination of Science

Abstract

Taking advantage of distance education in the development and dissemination of science necessitates a true understanding of the different aspects of the subject with regard to its importance and priority in the present circumstances of the modern society. Accordingly, the purpose of this article is to examine the role, importance, necessity, benefits, and barriers of distance education as a modern method of training and an alternative to traditional methods of teaching in the dissemination of science. The data collection method includes identifying, studying, and summarizing the scientific resources available in the literature such as books, research reports, and published scientific papers. The data gathered were analyzed based on the research categories including the goals and research questions. The results show that methods of distance education are viable alternatives to those of the traditional education in the dissemination and promotion of science and have various advantages such as taking communities to the heart of scientific developments more than before by decreasing or removing the limitations of the traditional methods