Though completed in February, this report has only this week become available online. The essence of the report is that although distance learning has not been extensively used in vocational education, it could and should be. The report contains some forward looking proposals including the promotion of learning object standards and the funding of learning object repositories. The strength of the report is its survey of current activity in U.S. distance learning, including a good discussion of the Thomson Corporation's many endeavours. I'm somewhat surprised that the authors rely exclusively on American sources for this report: Australia, in particular, has released a number of strong reports on distance learning in vocational education (they can be found via here the [Research] feature), but none of the knowledge gained there is applied here.
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