Online Education Has Matured

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Over the last ten years, the technology required to field online education has matured beyond its inventors’ dreams.  What is known today as distance education has its roots in correspondence courses. These early forms of distance education were conducted through the mail system, with students typing our their assignments on paper and mailing them to the Instructors, who would in turn grade them and send they back to the student through the mail system. In the present day, of course, all course work is done on the online school’s web site, and the online Instructors grade and return the assignments through the individual school’s chosen platform.  This digital classroom, so to speak, is a vast improvement over the old correspondence course method. Happily, for Instructors and college students, the maturing of online education has made earning a college degree online a lot less cumbersome.