Distance education (DE) has evolved over centuries and its one distinctive characteristic was, and still is, the physical separation between the delivering institution and students (Heydenrych & Prinsloo, 2010; Moiler, 1998; Moore & Kearsely, 2012, p. 1). DE is first and foremost a movement that sought not so much to challenge or change the structure of higher learning, but to extend the traditional university and to overcome its inherent problems of scarcity and exclusivity (Dianne, 1999). Among…
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