... addition, include a final slide with bibliographic information. Many institutions worldwide, but particularly in North America, Australia and New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and several other European countries, such as Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands, have started to invest heavily in online teaching. Sometimes the courses are offered entirely at a distance, targeted mainly at students who cannot access a conventional university or college campus. Others might better be described as distributed learning, in that they combine some elements of on-campus teaching with on-line access to materials and discussion forums. Why are institutions across the world investing so much in online learning? Is the investment justified? There is a variety of rationales for investing in on-line education, ranging from increasing access to improving the quality of learning to reducing costs to preparing students better for a knowledge-based society to responding to market demand Why Invest in Distant Learning? The main benefits ...

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