The competitive vulnerability of distance teaching universities

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Greville Rumble

Greville Rumble of the UK OU's East Anglian Region examines the vulnerability of the 26 or so distance teaching universities around the world to competition both from the increasing number of campus based universities taking initiatives in distance teaching, and the dual mode universities which have worked across a range of methods for some years. The article questions whether there is a future for the single mode university in a competitive environment