by Lisa Bachelor, the Guardian
Distance learning has come far since the days of late-night TV lectures. We speak to students who have turned their lives around from the comfort of their homes. The Open University is probably the best known name in distance learning, with 256,000 students worldwide, but it is not the only institution to offer degrees that can be completed at home. Most campus universities now offer at least some element of distance learning on a selection of courses, while others, such as the University of Liverpool, have developed postgraduate courses that involve no face-to-face interaction at all. “We are at the stage now where we are a serious player in total online learning,” says Alan Southern, director of e-learning at the University of Liverpool. “On some courses we have introduced some face-to-face contact, but our courses are predominantly built on the premise they are 100% online.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/feb/03/distance-learning
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