The role of distance education in the agricultural education system

In recent years due to the small capacity of the traditional education system and the lack of response of the higher education center to the educational needs of all people, more attention has been paid to something called distance education. Distance education as a well-known educational method allows people who for any reason are not able to continue their education or attend formal education institutions to be able to use formal education. Distance learning has solved many problems of face-to-face education. On the other hand, distance learning plays a vital role for e-learning in the future and makes e-learning flexible through its innovation and development. It is considered as an educational model using some educational equipment and also includes civic and social education. This tutorial covers a variety of topics. One of these issues is agricultural education, which due to its laboratory and operational aspects and its essential role in development, its presentation is associated with challenges. Due to the importance of the subject of this article, which has been compiled as a library survey, while stating the concept of distance education, its importance and necessity, the challenges facing the education system, its strengths and weaknesses in agricultural education, finally tries to provide solutions to increase the efficiency of this educational method.