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Thursday, August 07, 2003
Computers popularize distance education - Scott Bauer - Associated Press
An education revolution is happening across Nebraska, and it rarely involves a classroom. Distance education classes, frequently accessed via a personal computer at home, are becoming more widely available and popular. An ever-growing familiarity with computers is helping to fuel the increase, said David Powers, executive director of the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education. The biggest boom as tracked in the commission's annual report on distance learning was seen in classes that strictly involved interaction with a computer, particularly over the Internet.... Courses where students have no direct contact with an instructor increased 72 percent, from 699 in 2001 to 1,200 in 2002. Those courses have increased almost four times from the 317 offered in 1999-2000.
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