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Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as edutech, or edtech) is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning.

When referred to with its abbreviation, "EdTech," it often refers to the industry of companies that create educational technology.

In EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age, Tanner Mirrlees and Shahid Alvi (2019) argue "EdTech is no exception to industry ownership and market rules" and "define the EdTech industries as all the privately owned companies currently involved in the financing, production and distribution of commercial hardware, software, cultural goods, services and platforms for the educational market with the goal of turning a profit.

Many of these companies are US-based and rapidly expanding into educational markets across North America, and increasingly growing all over the world.".

Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance.

Traditionally, this usually involved correspondence courses wherein the student corresponded with the school via mail.

Distance education is a technology-mediated modality and has evolved with the evolution of technologies such as video conferencing, TV, and the Internet.

Today, it usually involves online education and the learning is usually mediated by some form of technology.

A distance learning program can either be completely a remote learning, or a combination of both online learning and traditional offline classroom instruction (called hybrid or blended).

Other modalities include distance learning with complementary virtual environment or teaching in virtual environment (e-learning).