The Role of Distance Learning in Enabling Students to Learn both at Secondary Education Level and in Adult Education

Abstract

The main reason distance education can be implemented and operated in Greece is the existence of school-age children and adults who either did not start or have stopped attending secondary education and lack the ability to physically attend classroom education. As Vassala (2005) points out, "countries that started distance education had the common characteristic of isolated areas from where access to conventional school was difficult and in many cases impossible." Since then, distance learning was successfully introduced internationally in school education. In the national education system and in particular in secondary education, distance learning becomes necessary because each of us individually and collectively, being the cells of the educational organization, represent the ideal that education is the right of all people and they should enjoy it throughout their lives (Lionarakis, Lykourgiotis, 1998) and we must be consistent with that ideal.