[LINK] Broadband for a Broad Land

[Jan Whitaker]

At 08:00 AM 31/12/2010, Tom Worthington wrote:
>At the very least, online education could be used for education of
>teachers. But I would also see it being used extensively, at least for
>older students.

Just a reality check. "could" is far too unrealistic. It is being 
done with millions of students every year across the US. The college 
I worked in in Arizona has thousands, just in Arizona. If it hasn't 
caught on in Australia to that degree yet, I'm not sure why. I doubt 
it has anything to do with what sort of network there is in place.

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=74
In 2007, the five postsecondary institutions with the highest 
enrollment were University of Phoenix Online Campus, with 224,880 students;
That wasn't where I worked.

In 2001, nearly 10 years ago, there were over 3mil. in distance 
education (across all media), with the highest proportion in Internet 
and 2-way video conferencing.
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/peqis/inc/displaytables_inc.asp

Jan


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