Distance learning suggests for some a detached, lighter and less serious version of learning.
To promote training and professional development in the Balkans region by providing distance learning.
While Harvard debates this issue, education experts say distance learning is here to stay.
As educational technology and students inevitably evolve, distance learning design will need to evolve as well.
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An additional 12 percent, in 1997-98, planned to offer distance learning courses in the next three years.
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Of all the things he plans to think hard about, he says, distance learning tops the list.
He also hopes to grow the school's global footprint, capitalizing on new technology to enhance distance learning.
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In the 1990s and 2000s, distance learning over the Internet became the dominant remote learning craze.
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This flexible integration of learning is one of the underlying appeals of distance learning, from Kansas to Kolkata.
This conference noted that open and distance learning, and specifically OERs, present opportunities to widen access to quality education.
The flexibility and relative affordability of phones allows for easy distribution and use, providing distance learning across geographical barriers.
Private four-year institutions are much less likely than public institutions to offer distance learning courses, according to the survey.
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In our community, we are able to bring distance learning to students who would otherwise not have access to language classes.
Among public four-year institutions, the percentage offering distance learning rose from 62 percent in fall 1995 to 79 percent in 1997-98.
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Among public two-year institutions, the percentage offering distance learning courses increased from 58 percent in 1995 to 72 percent in 1997-98.
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For would-be sellers of distance learning, the news may be death knell.
The first cycle will be conducted through a distance learning component that will start on 14 October 2013 and will end on 20 December 2013.
When people ask what I thought of the distance learning format I tell them I can't imagine going to school any other way.
But the scope of what it proposes to do, even as the details remain to be seen, could undermine the nascent distance learning market.
The announcement from the FutureLearn project sees the first major challenge from the UK, headed by the Open University, which has pioneered distance learning.
LogiCampus is designed to allow centers for distance learning to control most of the facets of their distance learning initiatives for students, teachers, and staff.
This bodes well for distance learning companies such as Class.com, a 1998 spin-off of a longtime University of Nebraska program called Independent Study High School.
Distance learning threatens one day to disrupt higher education by reducing the cost of college and by offering the convenience of a stay-at-home, do-it-on-your-own-time education.
To fortify math- and science-based curricula, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is making NASA content available to AAPI educators and offering distance learning programs.
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International Data Corp. also predicts that the proportion of four-year colleges offering a distance learning program will grow from 62 percent to 84 percent by 2002.
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Though the flurry of attention around MOOCs may lead one to conclude that distance learning is a recent phenomenon, it actually dates back over 120 years.
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Warwick Business School, on the other hand, insists on the same rigorous academic entry criteria for all its MBA programmes, whether distance learning, full- or part-time.
The e-rate offers a reduction on the price of monthly Internet access charges, wiring up classrooms, any special costs attaching to distance learning and basic telephone services.
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Owned by publicly traded Apollo Group, University of Phoenix enrolls some 400, 000 students on 200 campuses nationwide, and has a giant, highly profitable distance learning division.
He cites the expansion of distance learning and postgraduate work.
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