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Many forces are rapidly driving the push toward increasing distance education program offerings. Interactive technologies like personal computers, the Internet, the World Wide Web, video-conferencing, digital cameras, Web-Cams and a host of others has fueled the growth. However, other factors have also been adding fuel to the fire. A decreasing enrollment in universities and institutions across the nation, an increasing number of adult learners, and the need for more skilled, better trained employees have also promoted distance education. The desire to increase market coverage on behalf of colleges and universities, the desire to offer access to education to those who are constrained by boundaries of time/pl

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he use of CD-ROMS and others computer-based technologies that deliver lecture material. However, many opponents of distance education technology argue that it deteriorates the quality of learning and causes problems not had by traditional classroom instruction. These problems are had by instructors and educators as much as they are by students. According to Huang (1997, 36) “Learners must have basic knowledge of operating a computer with network connections. They must be more self-motivated, instead of taking an entertain me attitude and passively waiting for actions from instructors. Learners need to learn the skills necessary to interact with instructors and fellow learners electronically. For example, they must learn to understand written information more efficiently and be able to express themselves effectively through electronic modes of communication. Finally, they need information-searching skills to effectively synthesize information from the almost-unlimited online sources.” Despite some of the above obstacles and challenges to distance education technology, there are many who support its evolution who argue that the quality of learning from distance education technology is comparable to or better than conventiona
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