@article {267, title = {DIDACTICS AND COMMUNICATIONS CRITERION OF DISTANCE EDUCATION}, journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century }, volume = {14}, year = {2009}, month = {October/2009}, type = {Original article}, chapter = {56-64}, abstract = {Last decade{\textquoteright}s technological development in the field of information technology has boosted the range of varieties of its use in the distance education and given new dimensions to this type of education. Distance-learning nowadays is practised by several theory{\textquoteright}s, each differing from the other in its formal access, in the analyse of its teaching and learning materials, in its ways and range of counselling and the range of its communication with the participants, as well as in its didactic concept of preparing and forming learning materials, etc. Distance education is important criterion for new communication trends in education. Therefore it shall be covered more thoroughly in this work.}, keywords = {distance education, teacher training}, issn = {1822-7864}, url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1393668577.pdf}, author = {Ivan Gerli{\v c}} }