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Online Degrees & MBA Programs Information - Resources and Links for MBA, Bachelors, and Masters Degrees Online
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Simply put, distance learning is the delivery of education in which the instructor and students are not in the same classroom. It builds on the idea that students are learning all the time you don't have to be sitting in a classroom listening to an instructor deliver a lecture about a particular topic to learn about that topic. As with traditional higher education, students can take distance learning courses for self-improvement, certification, or to earn a degree. While online distance learning programs are, of course, a modern phenomenon, distance learning has a much longer history. Today's distance learning programs have their roots in the correspondence courses of the late 1800s in the United States. In Europe, Africa, and Asia, distance learning dates back even further. Some of the earliest U.S. correspondence programs were offered from land-grant institutions which were trying to reach an agricultural population that couldn't afford to leave their work behind to attend college on a campus. They used postal systems to send course materials to students in rural communities. The students would complete and return assignments through the mail. While this concept of correspondence courses has continued to the present, distance learning has grown and taken on new and combined forms as technological advances were made.
In the 1920s, some schools began enhancing and expanding upon their correspondence courses with the use of radio. They would broadcast lectures over the radio to supplement the written course materials that they would still distribute using mail. As America moved from radio to television in the 1950s, so did distance learning broadcasting. Schools started broadcasting the lectures on closed circuit and public television while continuing to use mailbased correspondence for texts and assignments. As times and technology continued to change, they moved to broadcasting on dedicated cable channels and through the use of audio- and video-tapes. From the 1960s until the 1990s, many distance learning programs used combinations of delivery methods, primarily television-based delivery for the lecture portion of a course and written materials transmitted through the postal service.
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