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work_qp754abjmzdxvoki7viuv22rgi	Trudy Bers	The Impact of Distance Education on Institutional Research	1999	19	.pdf	application/pdf	7881	446	41	An explosion is taking place in the number of distance education delivery agents and students enrolled in courses. Distance education facilitates and complements these other changes, delivering learning opportunities in nontraditional ways in nontraditional settings, often to nontraditional students. 1. Growth in distance and technology-based education render traditional definitions of student, faculty load, cost, and other measures either 2. Unbundling of educational services, such as curriculum development, course delivery, advising, and assessment, along with changing patterns of student attendance (multiple institutions, stop-in/stop-out), make For example, will advisers be expected to help students choose courses from a number of distance education providers to to accommodate distance education issues in existing data definitions, compilations, management, and exchanges will seriously erode the validity, comprehensiveness, and utility of many institutional research projects. Distance education affects another variable typically used in institutional research, student population.	./cache/work_qp754abjmzdxvoki7viuv22rgi.pdf	./txt/work_qp754abjmzdxvoki7viuv22rgi.txt