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Stephen Downes

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On the surface this article is a survey of some virtual universities around the world, and thus is a good indicator of this growing trend in education. But it also links their success to what it calls "useful distance education" - "a measurable value added toward achieving the results defined by the ideal vision (i.e., the kind of world we want to create for our children) of a society, the mission objective of an organization, and the objectives of an individual."

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