Colleges
Distance-Learning Explosion: Colleges and universities have embraced distance learning, doubling the number of courses offered and enrollment in them between the 1994-95 and 1997-98 academic years, a study has found.
About 44 percent of the nation's 3,700 two-year and four-year colleges and universities offered distance education in 1997-98, up from 33 percent in 1994-95, according to the report by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics.The study defined distance education as information sent via audio, video, or...
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