Distance Learning Offers Huge Advantages by Dr. Mendenhall.
Distance learning is becoming an increasingly accepted and important part of U.S. higher education. It allows students to learn at times and places convenient to them, thus expanding access to rural students, those who work full-time and those who travel or have family responsibilities. More importantly, it allows educators to individualize not only time and place but education itself.
Two things we know about adult learners are worth noting.
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Issue 7, November 2008 (PDF)
Source: Distance Learning Today