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In 2000-01 fifty-six percent of two and four year institutions and ninety percent of two year public colleges offered distance education classes.1 Many major universities are offering distance education classes to students around the world and some have joined hands to produce classes online. The Alliance for Lifelong Learning (Alllearn), a joint project of Yale and Stanford Universities in the United States and Oxford Univer-
John F. Lyons (2004) studied this question.