Hi Jolly, Certainly distance learning has been around and used a variety of technology for many years. Also, instruction has often been supported by technology starting with the slate and scraper :) "New" technology usually refers to technology since the Internet that uses hypertext/hyperlink technology and web rather than linear connectivity. While within Internet-based learning environments, many technologies can be used and some that are quite new while others that are not, the technology of the Internet has introduced multidimensional and multilayerd functionality that challenges the very core of conventional instruction.