Distance Education

Goldie Blumenstyk commends online education for reaching unserved distant students .

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InterUniversity Graduate Seminar Experience

Emily Dolan and Jonathan Sterne recount the experience of teaching a course using teleconferencing between universities in Montreal and Boston.

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School of the Air

Susan Matt and Luke Fernandez examine how before MOOCs there were "Colleges of the Air" which provided students with course content by radio.

Comments noted that while the radio courses disappeared in the U.S. by the 1950's, in Australia the broadcasting of education by radio has a long and continuing history, as Elaine Lopes described in her research proposal literature review.

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The Teach Act

Kenneth Crews, Director of Columbia University's Copyright Advisory Office, has written Copyright Law and Distance Education: Overview of the TEACH Act

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