Distant Education and the net.

...distance education is a distinct “nontraditional” type of education. In
his book Learning at the Back Door, Wedemeyer (1981) stated, “As Moore pointed out,
learning apart (physically separated) from a teacher by means of communications through
print, mechanical, or electronic devices implies quite a different concept of learning from
that acquired in school” (p. 111). . . . . .a revolutionary approach to learning that is just beginning to be noticed by administrators and program planners in higher education as well as those in government, business, and industry more . . . http://www.uady.mx/~contadur/sec-cip/articulos/libros_online/educacion/LawrenceErlbaum2003HandbookOfDistanceEducation.pdf#page=779"