Distance learning involves six years of part-time study and you can build a career without leaving your job," says director of distance learning strategy, Ruth Young.
According to Sarah Gormley, the director of distance education, Edinburgh's first six open online courses went live on Coursera on Jan . 28
Mr. Auh divides his time between the site, his job as an associate director for distance learning at New York University and his own software company, Intrepid Pixels.
Continuing education programs are also vulnerable and could lose 10 percent to 20 percent of their students to free online courses from esteemed universities, said Tony Bates, an online learning consultant and former director of distance education at the University of British Columbia.
The most remote, with 300 students, is in Oriximiná in the Amazonian state of Pará, accessible only by light plane or a 12-hour boat ride from Manaus, the region's main city".These courses aren't easy," says Elisa Assis, Unopar's director for distance education.
Lori Lambert, the assistant director for distance education at Salish Kootenai, has won two awards in the last year for using online technology to fill an educational gap in a geographically dispersed, underserved community: a citation from the Sloan Consortium for excellence in teaching and a $10,000 grant from the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.
And it's not as if either director is distancing himself from the term, the way Margaret Atwood seems to be.
While he conceded that English rugby has hit "rock bottom", the elite rugby director again distanced himself from direct responsibility for events in New Zealand and rejected calls for his resignation.
He might have been for his next film, Dune, an adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi novels, which lost an awful lot of money and, when rereleased in an extended version, prompted Lynch to credit the work to "Alan Smithee", the pseudonym used by directors to distance them from work with which they do not want to be associated.
The initiative's executive director, Ted Walter, distanced his group from the coalition of 9/11 "truthers" and insisted the referendum effort only aims to uncover why 7 WTC collapsed and to prevent future incidents.
A director with some distance from the writing might have helped clarify some of the play's denser and more elusive passages, or shaped the characters' rambling musings into sharper scenes.
