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Friday, October 26, 2007
Online distance learning convenient and cheaper; it’s the way to go - Omar Kalinge Nnyago, Uganda Daily Monitor
Open and Distance Learning, also referred to as Distance Education (DE) is an excellent means to provide the learning needs of lifelong learners. If well managed, distance education can provide opportunity for the provision of efficient, affordable education to a large number of people that would otherwise be unable to fit in the inflexible education system that Uganda inherited from the colonial era. There is indication that distance education may have been provided as early as 1728. In the Boston Gazette of 20th March 1728, Caleb Phillips, Teacher of the New Method of short hand, advertises that “……any persons in the country desirous to learn this Art, may, by having the several lessons sent weekly to them, be as perfectly instructed as those that live in Boston” (Battenberg 1971).
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