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Friday, December 31, 2004
Technology bringing education into reach - Cecilia Fanchiang, Taiwan Journal
The lightning-fast pace of technological growth and advancement is making life easier for people in countless different ways, not the least of which is in the realm of education. Electronic communications systems are becoming faster and more reliable, opening up many opportunities for distance learning. As Taiwan Journal staff writer Cecilia Fanchiang discovers, this is especially true in Taiwan, which already enjoys a relatively high Internet-penetration rate. Taiwan's success at information technology (IT) manufacturing is well documented. It is perhaps not surprising therefore that this IT expertise would be applied to a wide range of applications, such as computer-aided distance learning. In 1994, the Ministry of Education (MOE), along with several local universities, launched a pilot program that offered courses over the Internet. Now, 10 years later, that project has expanded to a much broader scale, and administrators are taking another look at where distance learning will go in the future.
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