Through distance learning, it is now possible, a quality education for students who can not physically attend courses offer. This type of study as distance learning, correspondence or other technologies offer known, the course materials.

Students anywhere can be an education in this way. One of the first users of distance learning is the University of South Africa, began in 1946.

In the distance goes further than the University of South Africa, however. It was actually developed by Sir Isaac Pitman in 1840. Pitman, who also invented shorthand, was the first to find a way to offer courses via e-mail. In the early 1900s, the University of Chicago has launched an educational service by e-mail. Later followed by other universities to follow.

However, online education has not really taken over in many places. Only a great education in some countries. Then, in 1969 opened the Open University in Britain. This represents an important development for distance learning, and some other open universities have been established.
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