The role of distance learning in specialist medical training
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- 1 March 2005
- journal article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 90 (3) , 279-283
Abstract
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) defines distance learning (DL) as “a way of providing higher education that involves the transfer to the student’s location of the materials that form the main basis of study, rather than the student moving to the location of the resource provider”.1Keywords
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