August 6, 1999

Distance Education: a Means to an End, No More, No Less

By DENNIS A. TRINKLE

The University of Phoenix and other purveyors of distance learning have come under harsh criticism from a variety of educational quarters. Courses taken on line have been excoriated as impersonal, superficial, misdirected, even potentially depressing and dehumanizing. A 1999 report on distance education from the National Education Association, for example, says on-line courses may disrupt the student-and-faculty

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