Tuesday, 7 August 2012

'DOES DISTANCE EDUCATION DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD?

The first term in the Doctor’s Hippocratic Oath is ‘Do no harm’. In distance education it’s axiomatic that we do good but this paper suggests that we may be too complacent about this and that we need to know rather more than we do about what in many cases is our final product – the dropped out student. For there is evidence that dropping out of full time UK higher education has deleterious effects on the students who drop out and on society as a whole.
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