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How Do Online University Instructors Use Online Classes Technology?
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About 40 percent of full-time U.S. college faculty have taught a course at an online university school.

That's just one result from a new in-depth survey of traditional and online classes technology usage compiled by Primary Research Group. "The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Educational Technology" includes the results of a survey of more than 550 higher education faculty in the U.S. and Canada. Results were released in January 2010.

Some key findings:


• More than half—53 percent—of those sampled said they would like to be an online university instructor if the pay were equivalent to that of a traditional class setting.

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What is Hybrid or Blended E Learning?
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Distance higher education started out as a way for older, non-traditional students with access issues to receive instruction.
But, beginning in the late 1990s, younger students—call them the “Instant Education Generation”—unexpectedly began embracing online university learning.
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How Popular and Prevalent is Distance College Education?
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By Vicky Phillips, Chief Education Analyst   
 
Distance college education is booming, with no signs of slowing down.
According to the Sloan Foundation’s 2009 report, Learning on Demand: Online Education in the United States, 2009, online distance course registrations at colleges have continued to grow much faster than residential or campus enrollments — up 17 percent from 2007 to 2008 alone.

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Who Uses Distance Higher Education?
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By Vicky Phillips, Chief Education Analyst   
 
Today's distance learners, using computers and high-speed transmission lines to virtually connect with professors and other students from around the world, owe a debt of gratitude to the farmers of the past.
That's because the development of distance higher education came about as a way to give rural learners better access to higher education.

That's right - distance learning has a long history. In fact, college level distance education in the USA is more than 100 years old.  What's new about distance learning is not the idea, but the type of student it serves and the number and type of higher education institutions that are using it to reach new types of students.
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What is Distance Higher Education?
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By Vicky Phillips, Chief Education Analyst   
 
Distance higher education is any learning that takes place with the instructor and student being geographically remote from each other. Distance education may occur by surface mail, videotape, interactive TV, radio, satellite, or any number of Internet technologies such as message boards, chat rooms and desktop computer conferencing.
Online education delivered over the Internet is one form of distance learning.
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