From 18th Century till Nowadays
Nowadays one of the popular ways to get education is online education or distance education. In fact, this way of education originates in 18th century. Of course, at those times, people didn’t have the Internet, but the post service began to develop. And first times of distance education were carried out though correspondence. Teachers composed programs for people and sent these programs through post service. In such a way, distance education began to develop.
Today the level of development of higher education is much higher than a couple of centuries ago and such invention as the Internet permits many people get that educating which they want but can’t do it in a traditional way. As for reasons of choosing distance e education, they can be really very different. Some people can’t study in traditional way because of health problems. Other people are too busy with work or family and can’t afford such thing as visiting classes at college or university.
In order to help these people to get necessary education, a lot of colleges and universities design online educational programs which lead to the receiving all possible degrees including master degrees and PhD degrees. And if you complete educational program of accredited college or university, your degree will be equal to the degree received in traditional way.