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DISTANCE learning, together with emerging computer technologies, offer a great deal of promise for the field of education.
Although it is often regarded as something new, distance learning has been around for over 100 years.
The first university to deliver distance learning in an organised manner was Pennsylvania State University in the United States, which started conducting courses in 1886 through correspondence.
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