Adult Education On-Line

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This paper discusses how distance education is one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing segments of college and graduate level education and how many educational institutions are expanding their programs to include distance based learning via the Internet. It examines the issues concerning the ability of traditional adult learners to adapt to the on-line learning environment to successfully complete an on-line learning degree program. It looks at how the purpose of a pre-course program for students would be to teach less technologically savvy students how to operate in an Internet based environment as effectively as possible. It also analyzes how failure to adequately support the distance-based learner can lead to a low-quality educational experience as well as attrition in online learning programs.

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"Colleges and universities are also expected to develop competent leaders and productive citizens that add to the value of society. According to Inayatullah, this is an egotistical belief that reflects in two ways on higher education's role in modern day society. The first is negative, where university training is seen as a restricted advantage of the wealthy and a way in which the powerful maintain control through exclusive knowledge acquisition and life-long "good old boy" networks. The second is a positive reflection; the university is a stepping stone, a supreme test of human quality and intellect where only the best and the brightest can attain a diploma. Today, educational elitism is a serious problem for many distance and non-traditional students."

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