Business Increase Use of Distance Education

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It's been a long time coming, but now it's a buzzword among academicians and business executives alike.

The only problem is, like so much technology that's finally caught up with a decades-old promise, distance education is not for everyone, and those who wish to use it have to learn a whole new skill.

At least teachers who want to conduct education courses at multiple locations simultaneously must learn a whole new way of doing things, according to Dr. Lorne A. Parker, president of the not-for-profit Teletraining Institute of Stillwater.

"It's a lot like buying a brand new video cassette recorder," said Parker who moved to Stillwater a year ago …