Why use Distance Education?
New and rapidly changing Academic Curriculum suggest the use of distance education as it will allow a few experts to deliver instruction to more students and this
- addresses shortage of trained faculty
- cost of developing new curriculum QUICKLY requires many students to amortize cost
Assume future of all education and training is “web-based” (even if taught in conventional organization) and that base Web Technology supports self paced asynchronous learning
- Database (linked to web) allow management and assessment
- Synchronous(Interactive) and Project based learning enabled by Web Collaboration systems
Both delivery mechanism and identification of knowledge nuggets (such as Internetics or computational science) that are smaller than a traditional degree suggests different approaches to certification
- Courses are given, graded etc. by multiple organizations -- University integrate degrees?