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Edmund Hewson Director
Distance Learning Unit
Leeds Beckett University

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It has long been known that online courses take longer to prepare than classroom versions. That one of 바카라사이트 study authors claimed that 바카라사이트 study ¡°exploded 바카라사이트 myth that online education...was less time-consuming [than on-campus courses]¡± is difficult to understand. Ask anybody who specialises in online education. They would have said as much 15 years ago. And this is how it ought to be: a well-designed and resource-rich online course should take much longer to build. Experts outside academia who build online instructional software and content will tell you that millions of dollars can be spent on course development.

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ShawTrio
Via ws-2000.com

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