David Murphy's Occasional Blog

It’s a simple truth that not everyone has the ability to put their life on hold so they can go to school full time.

Glancing to the right in my ‘Blogroll’, you’ll see my favourite educational bloggers: the officially accepted guru Stephen Downes; wise old (well, not that old) Terry Anderson; really old (but wise and indefatiguable) Tony Bates; messianic (with respect to his zeal rather than his spirituality) Zaid Ali Alsagoff; and the ever-engaging Martin Weller.

What does the world know about distance education? How do people learn about distance education? Well, the standard way of finding details of most topics seems to be Wikipedia, so I thought I’d take a look and see what it says.