Definitions of distance education
Borje Holmberg:
“Distance education covers the various forms of study at all levels that are not under the continuous, immediate supervision of tutors present with their students in lecture rooms or on the same premises but which, nevertheless, benefit from the planning, guidance, and teaching of a supporting organization.
Since 1975 Borje Holmberg has been a professor of the rnethodology of distance education at the FernUniversitat in Hagen, West Germany. Since 1976 he has directed its Institute for Research into Distance Education (Zentrales Institut fur Fernstudienforschung). He was president of the International Council for Distance Education (ICDE) from 1972 to 1975.
