Introduction to distance education, definition and objectives of distance education, teaching environments used by distance education; technologies used in distance education; techniques and methods used in the planning, preparation and implementation of distance education technologies, Basic concepts related to Internet; Internet ethics (netiquette); learning objects; international standards for metadata of learning objects, historical development of distance education in the world, distance education and learning theories, distance education information technologies, distance education application models, teacher roles in distance education, student roles in distance education, distance education and training design, distance education method, distance education measurement and evaluation, evaluation of distance education projects, guidance in distance education, ethics in distance education