| The majority of e-learning providers and employers believe that e-learning will bring huge advances in their organisations capacity for delivering learning or either learning respectively. However, a significant proportion of employers (23%) are undecided about the potential. |
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What has been learned from earlier mistakes and is success now in sight?
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 A
group of 17 research-led universities - including Birmingham, Nottingham,
Glasgow and Edinburgh - set up a partnership called Universitas 21 in
1997. To tap into the vast potential demand for higher education, particularly
in Asia, in May last year they set up Universitas 21 Global as an online
university. So far only an MBA is on offer, with a masters in information
systems to follow later this year or early 2005, so the jury is still
out. |
| Although
there is less demand for "webucation" and online studying than
enthusiasts predicted, Liverpool University recently announced a 10-year
international deal to deliver online degrees - they already have 1600
students taking its online masters and MBA degrees. |
HEFCE
now aim to support e-learning programmes at individual universities and
colleges for home and overseas students. |
| Universities
are more interested in "blended" learning, involving a mixture
of work-based and distance learning, to meet the diverse needs of students,
rather than concentrating on wholly electronic learning. |
Distance
learners are happy with a mixture of old and new - the internet has established
itself as an integral part of distance learning, but students still want
to choose the medium and the means by which they learn. |
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