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Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Vital to Make Most of New Technology - Erica Webster, Business Day (Johannesburg)
Distance learning has come a long way since the days of purely paper-based correspondence programmes. The University of SA (Unisa) pioneered distance education in SA in 1946 and was the first institution in the world to teach exclusively by this method. Anton Ferreira, executive director of Unisa's Graduate School of Business Leadership, says the early days of distance education meant receiving everything on paper.... But all that has changed. Technological advances have paved the way for learning that is more accessible, more manageable and less time-consuming, he says. "Although paper-based study materials are still needed, especially in emerging or developing economies, everything can be provided online. But that doesn't take away the need for good instructional design; that's where many distance education providers are falling short.
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