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Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder, Distance-Educator.com As the 21st Century approached several events dramatically changed the environment of business and education in the US, as well as elsewhere in the world. In June of 1997, Allen Greenspan, then the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board testified in the Congress, that the US economy has […]
By: Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder, Distance-Educator.com In 1962, a beach ball sized communications satellite called Telstar carried the picture of the then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson from the east coast of the United States to Europe (Bittner, 1980). Watch the Documentary on the Launch of Telstar This simple […]
Farhad Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Distance education has been a way of learning for countless individuals for more than a hundred years (Moore & Kearsley, 2012). It is a general concept which has roots in adult education embracing independent study, self-directed learning, as well as non-traditional and open and flexible education. In […]
By: Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder, Distance-Educator.com Industrialization has been a feature of distance education for many years. Otto Peters, a pioneering theorist, explained when technology is used to reach students in mass, education assumes industrial characteristics, such as, standardization of services and mass production of educational products (Keegan 1994). To the extent that correspondence […]
