PBS discontinuing24-year-old Adult Learning Service
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From Current.org ...
Though Americans are taking more and more college telecourses, PBS will drop out of the field as of Sept. 30 [2005], discontinuing its 24-year-old adult
Learning Service.
Millions of students still can't get to campus for lectures, and colleges increasingly are serving them by making their own computer-based courses using CD-ROMs, Internet discussion groups and online readings instead of the video-based courses for which ALS was a major promoter and middleman, PBS officials said.
At its peak in the mid-1990s, ALS helped colleges with as many as 450,000 enrollments a year, but handled just 180,000 last year and will count a projected 153,000 this year, said PBS spokesman Kevin Dando.
Though Americans are taking more and more college telecourses, PBS will drop out of the field as of Sept. 30 [2005], discontinuing its 24-year-old adult
Learning Service.Millions of students still can't get to campus for lectures, and colleges increasingly are serving them by making their own computer-based courses using CD-ROMs, Internet discussion groups and online readings instead of the video-based courses for which ALS was a major promoter and middleman, PBS officials said.
At its peak in the mid-1990s, ALS helped colleges with as many as 450,000 enrollments a year, but handled just 180,000 last year and will count a projected 153,000 this year, said PBS spokesman Kevin Dando.
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