Distance learning: who's doing it now?

By Mona Chalabi. Datablog: Moocs appear to be revolutionising the world of education. We study the numbers to find out whether it's all just a lot of hype.
Distance learning is nothing new. In 1938, the International Council for Correspondence Education was founded in Canada. In the same year, they held their first world conference, attended by 87 delegates. Only three of them weren't from America or Canada. More...