Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Distance Education - Guam?

The University of Guam is having a distance education workshop.

This idea might be a golden opportunity for UOG to become an affordable virtual US university of the future - and one with a front-row seat on the important Pacific Rim. Roughly half of "distance education" is, well, distance, and Guam has plenty of that. It might be as far away from the US as you can get and still be part of the US. But that shouldn't be a problem. You don't have to go to Phoenix to take courses from the University of Phoenix, and according to one report they have 330,000 students.

Kudos to them for thinking and talking about it. More kudos will follow when they develop some actual distance degree programs. I didn't see anything on their website, and their distance education workshop should be available as a distance offering - didn't see anything about a podcast or webcast. But you have to start somewhere.

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