Distance Education

Education has become the number one demanded commodity for social and economic transformation for both developing and developed economies. Thus the number of persons going and returning to school has become too big to be handled by existing brick and mortar learning institutions. Besides, the majori...

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Other Authors: Birevu Muyinda, Paul (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: IntechOpen 2012
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