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Saturday, August 21, 2004
Distance Learning Gets an On-Line Storefront - dave watson, Straight.com
Distance education is one of those topics that seems to come into vogue every few years, usually in conjunction with some new technology that promises to revolutionize the delivery of information to inquisitive minds. It happened with radio, television, videotape, videoconferencing, and, most recently, with the World Wide Web. Despite some fanciful predictions, none of these breakthroughs led to the abolishment of face-to-face classrooms. Still, over time, distance education has become more credible and its planners have steadily refined their techniques. Between the peaks of popular interest, universities and colleges continue to develop course-ware materials and design curricula for remote learning. Every major B.C. institution now offers at least some courses on-line, and several are actively pursuing that market. In fact, there are so many on-line offerings these days that the time has come to put some order into the system. That's the mandate of BCcampus (http://www.bccampus.ca/), which aims to provide a gateway to all of the distance education courses and programs offered by 27 postsecondary institutions in B.C., from UBC and SFU to the Justice Institute of British Columbia and the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology.
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