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Distance Ed: Not So Distant

Have you looked at your institution's "mediamix" lately? How's your progress on transforming educational content to platform-neutral, XML-tagged electronic files that permit rapid publication in a variety of forms? Are you looking seriously at replacing the course model with online "learning spaces" students can enter again and again for true lifelong learning? No? It's no surprise. We all know that issues of this sort are potentially important for higher education but, at the moment, they're not high on the agenda at virtually any traditional college or university. At nontraditional institutions, it's quite another story. I learned this a few weeks ago at an invitation-only conference on technology and international education hosted by UNED (Spain's National Distance Education University) and the University of Maryland University College (a leading U.S. force in distance and international education)....


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