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Friday, October 03, 2003
Self-discipline a key success factor in distance learning programs - Heidi Sylvester, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Despite the growing range and increasing flexibility of MBA programs, many executives required to spend large chunks of time traveling for business continue to struggle to find on-campus programs that they can fit into their work commitments. Because the reality of meetings called at the last minute makes even programs requiring only occasional attendance impractical for some businesspeople, the growing interest in distance learning is not difficult to understand. Germany may lag other European countries when it comes to the number of MBA schools it offers, but it counts among the leaders in the field of e-learning - study programs completed off-campus and through the Internet. “Academic e-learning programs in Germany are first-class, but too few universities manage to successfully market these products commercially,“ said Ulrich Schmid, manager of Multimedia Kontor Hamburg, a company which just organized a three-day event, “Campus Innovation,“ dealing with on-line learning in German universities.
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