'distance learning programme' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a learning programme that involves courses and/or lessons that are done remotely, either online or over the phone. For example: "I'm enrolled in a distance learning programme which allows me to study from the comfort of my own home".
He initiated an ambitious distance learning programme that since its inception has trained more than 8,000 health professionals from more than 130 countries.
Zambian distance learner Brenda Phiri studied her MBA through the distance learning programme at EBS and now works as a financial consultant for Deloitte & Touche.
Contact time has been increased – the candidates meet on seven separate occasions across 27 days under the guidance of the FA tutors – and there is an extensive distance learning programme and club visits on top.
Engineers looking to improve their knowledge and qualifications in the area of mobile hydraulics technology can now take advantage of the Mobile Hydraulics distance learning programme at the UK National Fluid Power Centre NFPCC).
On the one hand, in order to complete successfully a distance learning programme, learners need to develop a series of strategies and skills that will enable them to work individually.
The laboratory presented in this paper is located at the Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romanda, and is designed mainly for students from Automatic Control and Applied Informatics – distance learning programme, and also for the situations when professors from our University are visiting professors abroad and the laboratories associated with their lectures are done remotely.
This interaction is less frequent with distance learning programmes and some may find it a drawback.
"After running distance learning programmes for the past 10 years, we decided we needed to set a strategy for online distance learning that was dedicated and fit for purpose," says Julie Stone, head of University of Derby Online.
Drop-out rates are generally higher for distance learning programmes and at least one school has lost accreditation by failing to satisfy the Association of MBAs that it was doing enough to tackle its low graduation rate.
Leicester's school of management has devoted significant resources into building up its distance learning programmes since it was set up as a separate department in 2002 and now has 6,000 studying remotely – even more than the Open University, which has nearly 4,000.
Websites, programme reports, and published articles were reviewed for nine organisations conducting distance learning programmes.
