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The virtualizing of education.

New ways of providing access to education for a much higher percentage of the population are being devised. The most dramatic examples of access to education are the 11 distance-education mega-universities located worldwide. The basic delivery system for these institutions is television, augmented...

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Published in:Futurist Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 34 - 39
Main Author: Dunn, Samuel L.
Format: Article
Published: World Future Society March/April 2000
Subjects:
Distance education
Computers in education
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