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This 7 page paper discusses the changes that online education has had on higher learning. It considers the rise of the Internet education; the way in which this type of education has moved away from the liberal arts tradition; and the impact on tenure caused by distance education. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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liberal arts degrees; and the decline of tenure due to the increasing use of the Internet for education. Discussion Distance education in its broadest sense has been around since the
early 1830s when the first correspondence courses were developed (Lewis et al, 1999). But what we think of as distance education today really came into its own with the development
of technology and particularly the Internet. Today, technology changes so rapidly that its difficult to come up with a working definition of distance education that means anything. Lewis says that
the pace of change is so great that the term "distance education is applied to a great variety of programs, providers, audiences and media" (Lewis et al, 1999, p. 2).
Lewis defines distance education as "education or training courses delivered to remove (off-campus) location(s) via audio, video (live or prerecorded), or computer technologies, including both synchronous and asynchronous instruction" (Lewis
et al, 1999, p. 2). The rise of Internet based distance education in particular is still somewhat controversial, but even so, "four top-notch universities are jumping on the bandwagon
and collaborating to create Internet-based distance education programs to expand their offerings" (Shklovskii, 2001). The four include Yale, Stanford, Oxford and Princeton (Shklovskii, 2001). This particular program is aimed at
the graduates of these universities and is designed to deliver courses former students can take to "continue their education after theyve graduated" (Shklovskii, 2001). Although these four schools are pretty
"high powered," the way theyre designing their Web offerings is typical of all institutions offering distance education: the content has to be interactive; it is often multimedia; and it has
to be at a level the student can understand without having an instructor present to help in the learning (Shklovskii, 2001). Students in distance learning courses typically do their assignments
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