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How do College Instructors Use Distance Learning Technology?
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About 40 percent of full-time U.S. university faculty have taught a distance learning course.

That's just one result from a new in-depth survey of 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:
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What is Hybrid or Blended Education?
Online Education Facts & Statistics  >  Distance Education Primer
By Vicky Phillips, Chief Education Analyst  |  January 14, 2009   
 
Distance learning started out as a way for older, non-traditional learners with access issues to receive instruction.
But, beginning in the late 1990s, younger students—call them the “Instant Education Generation”—unexpectedly began embracing distance learning.
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How Popular and Prevalent is Distance Learning?
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By Vicky Phillips, Chief Education Analyst  |  January 14, 2009   
 
Online 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 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 Learning?
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By Vicky Phillips, Chief Education Analyst  |  January 14, 2009   
 
Today's online students, 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 distance learning came about as a way to give rural learners better access to higher education.
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What is Distance Learning?
Online Education Facts & Statistics  >  Distance Education Primer
By Vicky Phillips, Chief Education Analyst  |  January 14, 2009   
 
Distance learning is any learning that takes place with the instructor and student being geographically remote from each other. Distance learning 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 or education delivered over the Internet is one form of distance learning.
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