Bridging Educational Gaps

Definitions………………………………………………………………9

Rationale/Scope.……………………………………………………..11

Distance Education.………………………………………………….13

Source Description.…………………………………………………..42

Data Gathering………………………………………………………..43

Limitations……………………………………………………………..46

Findings…….…………………………………………………………..47

Overview………………………………………………………………..48

Summary/Findings……………………………………………………..59

Discussion/Conclusions……………………………………………….61

Recommendations..……………………………………………………63

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In the past, distance education equated to correspondence study. E

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with the cooperation between corporations and educational institutions to promote distance education technology, teaching and learning. There is unlimited potential in the educational market, making it one of the hottest investment arenas in recent memory. Intellectual activity is now converted into intellectual capital, i.e., intellectual property. The scientific research boom in education is one factor that has helped this commoditization, but unlike knowledge, it is the educational function now being commercialized. Instruction can be packaged, sold and bought and course plans and lessons can be developed into courseware. Wherever distance education technology allows students to gain an education, the campus is the main marketplace for these types of intellectual products. The university now represents the site of production as well as the main market for “copyrighted videos, CD-ROMs, and Web sites” (Noble 3). The electronification of instruction is thought of being a means of reducing costs. Advocates of distance education technology point to the ways in which teacher efficiency can be increased. However, many contend that distance education technology and the commoditization of education cannot rid education of th
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