Distance-learning or distance-education is a useful means of making high quality training in a range of subjects accessible to areas that are remote or disadvantaged in terms of access to advanced training opportunities or learned instructors. The rapid developments in the information-technologies and increasing access to the Internet is having a profound influence on the character of distance-learning, which has made possible the direct and immediate interaction between students and teachers through e-mail, conference boards, net meeting, net telephony, fax, etc. Course content and delivery is made available, anytime and any place, from a variety of sources including standard textbooks, instructor-created web pages, Internet links, video, television and print.

Banking on its superior Internet expertise, COMSATS is doing a pilot-scale distance-learning project with Alliance Francaise, French Linguistic Centre in Islamabad. The project aims to initiate web-based French language training in otherwise inaccessible areas of Pakistan. It would open the doors to higher education and the French scholarship programmes for Pakistani youth. In future, COMSATS seeks collaborations to initiate distance-learning programmes for science & technology disciplines, also.