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Distance education is not a new phenomenon in the educational field, but rather a way of teaching and learning known and practiced for at least a hundred years. Before the advent and mass use of new information and communication technologies, educators are using printed material and mail services for what is called education by correspondence. Since 1910, a study of an institution dedicated to distance learning gives us a measure of what is happening in the U.S. and Canada: "No less than 1,600 people are involved in training activities by the International Correspondence School, whose The main mission is to penetrate the heterogeneous mass of humanity to discover direct and convince people of the benefits of education. I do not know one another most revolutionary innovation among existing methods more radical than that. We are dealing here with an institution that annually spends more than two million dollars to create a demand for education.. " (As cited in Distance Education - An Introduction [online] http://www.distance-educator.com/. It's about the Reverend JHOdell address, titled "New era in education: A study of the correspondence training method" sent in November. 1910 through the International Correspondence School in Pennsylvania) This form of distance education still remains a viable training method where infrastructures are not yet developed a modern and effective approach. It should be noted here some of the current forms of education by correspondence, in which learning materials are electronic and can be delivered on diskettes, CD-ROM or directly via e-mail. This gives some advantages over distance education by postal mail: cost reduction, staff and space for storage. As is the case of education through television, which takes also at one point, the book / manual and press multiple tasks of information storage and transfer are in a real explosion. By means of its extensive and varied and take advantage of familiarity, television contributes to cultural information, but can also be used for education, preserving as an alternative pedagogical focus of educators in 1945 (when Iowa State University obtained the first license ) and up to the middle of the eighth decade. Research has shown that results are not inferior to television school obtained through traditional education. The distinction that emerges is between 1. general educational TV programs, which aim to influence educational objectives through educational and broadcast in February. programs designed and implemented according to school type programs as an alternative form of education, which benefit from advantages of distance education: a teacher learning situations can lead to a greater number of pupils, pupils are inaccessible to direct observation realities; attractiveness of materials by combining picture and sound, the contents can be transmitted endorsement of personalities present at the lesson, set aside the impediment distance, reuse, etc.