Online learning programs are invaluable because they provide a segment of our population with critical literacy and job-related skills as well as the means necessary to take their education to the next level. As President Kennedy once said: `Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.’ For millions of students worldwide, these dreams are being realized through the use of distance learning technologies, allowing them to fulfill their own personal and educational ambitions.

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