Take up of online distance learning in the UK is set to explode over the next few years. Online courses offer students a cheaper way to get a degree and the flexibility to study when it suits them, and for many they deliver an improved learning experience. Online courses may also help universities meet recent government demands to cut costs. David Willetts, the universities minister, is keen on distance learning as a way of reducing students’ living expenses. With annual tuition fees alone rising to £3,290 next year for campus-based degrees at English universities, the £3,500 total price tag of some online degrees will look ever more tempting. There is also growing interest from students, owing partly to the wide-spread adoption of online technologies used in everyday life, as the HEFCE Online Learning Task Force pointed out in a report of March this year:
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