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There’s a time and
a place for everything. And so it was with postsecondary
education. But things change. The information age has
sparked a new trend in education: learning anytime,
anyplace.
Students traditionally have gone to a specific
classroom, on a specific campus, at specific times in
order to take academic courses. Most still do so, but a
growing number of students—many of them adult
learners—choose distance learning. In this mode of
education, the students and the instructor are separated
by space or by both space and time.
This article explores the what, why, and how of
distance learning:
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