Out of the Shadow and Into the Spotlight: The Development of Distance Teaching in Norwegian Higher Education

On October 4, 1914, The Norwegian Correspondence School (NKS) accepted its first student, a woman, who, for a fee of NOK 10, registered for two courses (Amdam and Bjarnar, 1989). Seventy-five years later, distance education has become an important part of Norwegian higher education. However, there a...

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Main Authors: Gunnar Grepperud, Anne Marie Støkken, Jan Atle Toska
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2002-01-01
Series:International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning
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Online Access:http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/60