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Q. I'm hoping someone can direct me to a Masters in Education program that leads to certification in the US and can be done through distance learning. I have searched quite a bit, but as yet, I have not found a program. If you could email your responses, I would appreciate it.

A. I don't know about a Master's program, but the University of Phoenix offers an on-line Post-BA Teacher Certification program. Just be REAL careful about scam institutions where all you are really doing is "buying" a piece of paper that grants you a worthless degree. These sleazy places exist all over the place. There are legitimate places, though. So be sure you do your "homework" and find out about accreditation and whether you will actually 'learn' anything. In this paper on trends in continuing education the author, who was formerly program information director for outreach services at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, reviews delivery systems that have made distance education possible and practical. The review begins with the introduction of correspondence study classes for off-campus students in 1891 and extends to today's computerized and satellite-delivered systems that make extension classes available to adult students worldwide. Today's much discussed distance education movement is not a new phenomenon. The University of Wisconsin and other major universities have utilized correspondence study courses since the 1890s to provide off-campus learning opportunities for millions of adults. During the 1960s, more than 70 years after the United States borrowed from Oxford and Cambridge Universities the concept of offering extension classes, a team of Wisconsin Extension consultants helped Great Britain develop off-campus teaching systems needed to establish the British Open University. It was also during the 1960s that UW Madison and University Extension specialists helped Kenya improve its schools by using a combination of broadcast and correspondence study systems -- another example of distance education! During the 1980s and early 1990s several factors focused new attention on distance education. An increasing number of adults found they needed refresher courses to keep up with the knowledge explosion and many preferred not to return to campus. Computers and space satellites had also made it practical for universities to package and deliver adult education programs to students thousands of miles from the campuses.

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