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Wednesday, May 01, 2002
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,707084,00.html For IT courses, their online time has arrived - but the rest are some way behind Stephen Hoare, The Guardian As a distance learning provider the Open University may have pioneered the use of television to push the boundaries back in the late 1960s, but as far as e-learning is concerned, the virtual world is still at least five years off. While half of the OU's 350 courses use new media in some form, only a dozen are totally online. Ten thousand people will graduate from the OU this year and a further 1,500 postgraduates have been awarded MBAs in business administration from the Open University business school. Currently the school has 30,000 students in the UK and more than 40 countries. Studied by businessmen with access to the latest kit, the distance learning MBA is heavily geared to e-learning. Meanwhile, degree courses based around tried and tested methods such as videos, CD-roms and printed material are slowly being rewritten to give an online option....
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