The question that I decided to answer is: “What is the history of distance learning?
I was able to find the answer to this question on a website titled The Official alt.education.distance FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) from paum88a@prodigy.com (Rita Law). The URL for this site is http://pages.prodigy.com/PAUM88A/. Distance education actually started over 100 years ago in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Today, in other countries, distance education is associated with Open Universities. These are well-known and highly respected universities. Open universities started in the United Kingdom in 1971. “The largest distance learning student body in the world is part of the University of South Africa (UNISA). UNISA has more than 200,000 people enrolled world wide” (Rita Law). Distance education stared mainly because many countries has sparsely populated areas. It did not make sense for people to travel great distances in order to obtain an education. In many cases, people were unable to seek further education because of distances between the institution and their homeland. In the
