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Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Monday, January 17, 2005
The Death of Distance: Documenting the Effects of Distance Education In South Dakota - Steve WHEELER and Shannon AMIOTTE, TOJDE

Implementing distance education in any context can be daunting and problematic. To establish a State-wide distance education project such as the DDN in South Dakota is an achievement of some magnitude. However, regardless of the difficulties, the lessons learned and the solutions applied are beginning to reap rewards. The tensions will continue, because distance education is both a part of the solution and a part of the problem. Notwithstanding the authors maintain that distance education is the way forward to addressing the problems of the tyranny of distance.

 



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