Adopted primitive societies in antiquity on natural raw materials and try to put them in line with their needs frequent and growing, resulting in a developed and transformed little by little, this development accompanied the emergence of industrial societies rely entirely on energy, but in the modern era society depends primarily on the tide informational especially after widening circle of knowledge and research in various fields and the emergence of electronic equipment used in information technology, and has become our present era is called the era of information based on the information network of local or extended, which swept across the various fields, and considering that the essence of education and the basis of the information it is also affected by the development and technological techniques that gave him dimension and a new concept, and the back of the so-called education Default or e-learning or virtual university, stemming from distance education, After it was the student is the one who goes to the sites of science, he became able to learn and gain knowledge without leaving the area, where, and thus canceled obstacle geographical boundaries, and canceled as well as a large portion of the expenses incurred for traditional education
Because of the changes and rapid developments after the mid-nineteenth century, due to the spread of rad, television and satellite and video equipment and computers, and will be cited here are some reasons that led to the attention of education open and distance education, including:
1 - lifelong learning and economic development: as both of open learning and distance education gives the flexibility necessary for mature adults to continue their education and training, despite their functional responsibilities at work or family responsibilities.
2 - social justice and force balanced: where there are a large number of adults worldwide who prevented them personal circumstances and social pursue higher education by engaging in traditional education systems, so education is open and distance education offers a second chance to anyone over such circumstances through the abolition of the border that were restricting access to higher education.
3 - Cost effective: as there are many countries where there is increasing demand for studying at the higher education systems of conventional, until it became a desire to meet this demand exceeds the capabilities of national economic available, so it comes open learning and distance education to offer a solution to this problem.
4 - geography and remote areas: in remote and sparsely populated is neither possible nor acceptable economically be set up institutions of traditional education, which covers all levels and areas of teaching, higher education and vocational training, and in this case comes open learning and distance education to provide an opportunity alternative to traditional education on Society levels and in various fields of economic acceptable cost (1).
5 - the explosion of technology, and touched upon the first part of this research.
6 - The possibility to take advantage of hardware media different such as TV, radio and satellite in distance education, since they are working on the composition of positive attitudes towards learning and education, working to preserve the identity and cultural identity of the community, it also works to bring the class differences and social It is a tool to achieve stability and security and social peace, and working on breeding individuals in their free time in her programs in order to fill leisure time in ways that are far from upscale projection and landing (1).
7 - Open Learning type of individual learning, which allows the learner to walk in the learning speed and the rate at which commensurate with his abilities without the obligation to quickly teacher education, which is usually determined on the basis of estimates own, it also provides materials and a variety of sources for each objective of the tutorial, as well as to the diversity of sources and educational resources and works to provide continuous feedback on a regular basis rather than relying on the method of trial and error (1).
8 - to open learning and distance education is a field to teach multiple segments of society and to compensate them for the loss of opportunities for learning and school and university education, by increasing their skills and raise the level of qualifications and improve their professional performance, because it takes modern technology of devices and materials, equipment and other methods (1) .
