In an article for the prison newspaper Inside Time, last December, PET claimed a prison governor in Yorkshire had instructed that no more distance learning or OU applications would be supported and that other jails were following suit.
They also recommend colleges reduce spending, perhaps by trimming employee benefits, employing more distance learning in place of expensive classroom lectures, or paring down course offerings.
The council is also consulting on whether more "distance learning" would be appropriate, especially for senior pupils - potentially saving £600,000 a year.
There's going to be more online learning, more distance learning... maybe so, but how?
Like many Christian colleges, Liberty is expanding rapidly to keep up with growing demand; the school adds 800 students a year, and now has a total of 10,000 on campus and 18,000 more distance-learning students.
Since 1993, it has awarded more than $7.2 million for distance learning and distance health care in Native American areas and has approved loans to telecommunications companies and cooperatives serving 27,000 Native American and Alaskan native villages.
I said I was probably the only one with a degree gained through distance learning, and that I also had more work experience than the majority of graduates".
Within education, concepts such as distance learning, and open universities, are now becoming more widely used for teaching and learning.
Videoconferencing enables distance learning and subspecialty teaching.
Distance learning and MOOCs reduce education to content delivery.
