While Harvard debates this issue, education experts say distance learning is here to stay.
We are, for instance, committed to the Clinton Global Initiative and are working with UNICEF, the International Rescue Committee and Microsoft to launch an innovative new distance-learning program that provides supplementary education for 150, 000 displaced children and members of their host communities.
It goes on to outline a variety of ways in which broadband is improving the lives of people around the world, in m-health, distance education and m-learning, via m-payment systems, and in improving the lives of women, promoting innovation and fostering the acquisition of new skills.
We are, for instance, committed to the Clinton Global Initiative and are working with UNICEF, the International Rescue Committee and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) to launch an innovative new distance-learning program that provides supplementary education for 150, 000 displaced children and members of their host communities.
Distance learning threatens one day to disrupt higher education by reducing the cost of college and by offering the convenience of a stay-at-home, do-it-on-your-own-time education.
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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This conference noted that open and distance learning, and specifically OERs, present opportunities to widen access to quality education.
Inaugurated by Anshu Vaish, Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, the conference explored ways to increase access to sustainable and learner-centred quality education and equip secondary school students with vocational skills through open distance learning.
The project is aimed at transferring the ECCA Adult Distance Learning System technologies to the DGAEA in order to help it implement the national adult education and training system.
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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