Distance education

Quality:

Distance education - education via communication technology with little or no face-to-face teaching. Article “Distance education” in English Wikipedia has 96.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 173 references and 18 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7623^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7195^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Distance education”, its content was written by 959 registered users of English Wikipedia (7623^rd place) and edited by 3018 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7195^th place).

The article is cited 2185 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5791 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #950 in April 2004
• Global: #1435 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #18625 in June 2013
• Global: #8583 in October 2014

There are 42 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Distance education		96.3759
2	Hebrew (he) למידה מרחוק		64.3451
3	Arabic (ar) تعليم عن بعد		60.4329
4	Portuguese (pt) Educação a distância		54.5342
5	Malay (ms) Pendidikan jarak jauh		50.4735
6	Indonesian (id) Pendidikan jarak jauh		50.3355
7	Chinese (zh) 遙距教育		49.5793
8	Greek (el) Εξ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευση		49.5509
9	Catalan (ca) Educació a distància		43.6307
10	Russian (ru) Дистанционное обучение		39.7766

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Distance education		5 783 100
2	Spanish (es) Educación a distancia		2 930 607
3	Russian (ru) Дистанционное обучение		1 931 315
4	Portuguese (pt) Educação a distância		1 514 441
5	Arabic (ar) تعليم عن بعد		796 343
6	Hindi (hi) दूरस्थ शिक्षा		426 250
7	French (fr) Formation à distance		395 703
8	Indonesian (id) Pendidikan jarak jauh		338 374
9	Ukrainian (uk) Дистанційне навчання		289 136
10	Italian (it) Formazione a distanza		249 213

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Distance education		6 957
2	Russian (ru) Дистанционное обучение		4 298
3	Spanish (es) Educación a distancia		727
4	Chinese (zh) 遙距教育		535
5	Portuguese (pt) Educação a distância		499
6	Hindi (hi) दूरस्थ शिक्षा		489
7	Italian (it) Formazione a distanza		436
8	French (fr) Formation à distance		244
9	German (de) Fernunterricht		167
10	Ukrainian (uk) Дистанційне навчання		144

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Distance education		959
2	Spanish (es) Educación a distancia		257
3	Portuguese (pt) Educação a distância		205
4	Russian (ru) Дистанционное обучение		200
5	French (fr) Formation à distance		180
6	German (de) Fernunterricht		133
7	Arabic (ar) تعليم عن بعد		122
8	Hebrew (he) למידה מרחוק		100
9	Turkish (tr) Uzaktan eğitim		100
10	Chinese (zh) 遙距教育		74

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Serbian (sr) Образовање на даљину		3
2	Chinese (zh) 遙距教育		2
3	Arabic (ar) تعليم عن بعد		1
4	Catalan (ca) Educació a distància		1
5	Basque (eu) Urrutiko hezkuntza		1
6	Indonesian (id) Pendidikan jarak jauh		1
7	Russian (ru) Дистанционное обучение		1
8	Simple English (simple) Distance education		1
9	Turkish (tr) Uzaktan eğitim		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Distant təhsil		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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