An additional 12 percent, in 1997-98, planned to offer distance learning courses in the next three years.
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Private four-year institutions are much less likely than public institutions to offer distance learning courses, according to the survey.
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Among public two-year institutions, the percentage offering distance learning courses increased from 58 percent in 1995 to 72 percent in 1997-98.
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According to an International Data Corp. study, the number of college students taking distance learning courses will triple to 2.2 million by 2002, or 15 percent of all higher education students.
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Distance learning courses have long been trying to replicate the social buzz of the post-lecture coffee shop or library chatter, and increasingly their portals resemble elements of our Facebooks, Flickrs, MySpaces and blogs.
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The National Center for Education Statistics, a branch of the U.S. Department of Education, also found that the total enrollment in distance learning courses across all post-secondary degree-granting institutions roughly doubled -- from 754, 000 to 1.6 million -- from 1995 to 1997-98.
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An additional 12, 000 or so sign up for distance-learning courses.
This dramatically expands the possibilities associated with free online courses because distance and language will no longer be obstacles in testing for knowledge accrued in massive open online courses (or MOOCs).
With the tremendous increase of students participating in MOOCs and sundry online courses, distance learners are forced to become even more self-directed, engaged, and collaborative than ever before.
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Distance-learning programmes don't usually allow for elective courses.
The award ceremony - appropriately, for students who had studied a masters course in distance education - is expected to be the first of a series as more and more courses are delivered through the internet.
The University of Phoenix, set up in 1989 to teach adults through a combination of old-fashioned distance learning and evening classes, is incorporating more and more e-learning into its courses, which are mostly taken by people with full-time jobs.
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