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Stephen Downes

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Evidence that distance and online learning still suffer from a credibility gap: "Half of the 214 employers who responded to a Straits Times survey prefer to hire graduates who have taken full-time courses. Only 4 per cent of them favour those who did distance learning." The reasons for their scepticism include "doubts about the admission and examination standards of distance-learning programmes."

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