All About Distance Learning is your place to learn about online education, correspondence courses, and everything related to distance education.

Correspondence courses have been around since at least the late 1800s, when the University of Chicago established the first known correspondence course in the United States. With the advent of the Internet, however, the potential for learning with student in one location and teacher in another became nearly unbounded.

While certainly many correspondence courses relying on paper and postal delivery still exist, a new form of online education evolved, and the concept of learning across distances became known as "distance learning".

Indeed, with its great potential and many nuances, many variations on the theme have unfolded, and the term distance learning now encompasses all sorts of models, themes and designations, including "elearning", "online learning", "distance education", and "virtual universities".

Nowadays one can take courses in nearly anything at a distance, be it online or by mail, and be it one course in a subject which interests you, or an entire curriculum leading to a degree. You can even go to law school by correspondence!

Of course not all distance learning courses are created equal, and for that reason checking out resources like All About Distance Learning before you set off on your distance education is a very good idea indeed!

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