July 14, 2000

Hong Kong's Boom in Distance Education May Be a Sign of What's to Come in Asia

By DAVID COHEN

Visitors can't help noticing the skyline here, rising out of the harbor like a Manhattan of the Far East. For distance educators, though, the smudge of hills on the horizon and what lies behind them, in mainland China, is a more tantalizing prospect.

At the Open University of Hong Kong, administrators feel that they have

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