After reading everyones definitions of distance education I think I finally understand the concept. On the surface distance education is just that, learning from a distance. Involving technology and the classroom in order to teach. But under the surface we get a bit more technical. The term distance learning still means that learning is distant but in this case the only reason the learning is distant is because we have not learned it. So what happens when we put these two meanings together? If we put these to meanings together distance education is any means of teaching or education that is possible in order for us, the students, learn the things that we need to learn. So even if the student and teacher are located in the classroom, if we have not learned the information then the education is distant.