Online university education blossoms in Asia
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In a picture taken on Aug 27, 2012, students prepare for an exam in front of their computers at Kuala Lumpur-based Asia e University (AeU). Online university education is expanding quickly in Asia, where growth in technology and Internet use is matched by a deep reverence for education.-- PHOTO AFP
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Thousands of kilometres from Kuala Lumpur in Cameroon, doctoral student Michael Nkwenti Ndongfack attends his Open University Malaysia classes online and hopes to defend his final thesis by Skype.
A government worker, Mr Ndongfack could not find the instructional design and technology course he wanted in his own country, so is paying a foreign institution about US$10,000 ($S12,500) for the degree instead.
Online university education is expanding quickly in Asia, where growth in technology and Internet use is matched by a deep reverence for education.
"I chose e-learning because it is so flexible," Mr Ndongfack, 42, told AFP via Skype from his home in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde.
