突破口語之獨白(10):Distance Education遠程教育

Would you like to hone your professional skills from the comfort of your home or get a college degree without setting foot on campus? It sounds too good to be true? There are now thousands of online classes available on the World Wide Web and that number will soon mushroom into tens of thousands.
For decades, students have turned to distance learning to further their ducational goals. From correspondence courses to tele-classes, distance learning has served the needs of people who cannot physically attend classes. With the explosion of infomp3ation technology and the Internet, you can now have a virtual classroom right on your desktop. In most cases, to take a course you need only your computer, a web browser and Internet access.

你想在舒適的家中培養自己的專業技能嗎? 或者不需駐足校園就獲得大學學位嗎? 好得讓人難以置信吧? 如今，環球網上開設了成百上千的在線課程，數字很快就會增加到成千上萬。
十幾年來，很多學生接受遠程學習來深化他們的教育目標。從函授課程到電視廣播課程，遠程學習滿足了很多由於身體原因不能上學的學習者的需要。隨着信息技術和互聯網的迅速發展，現在在電腦桌面上你就可以擁有一個虛擬教室了。多數情況下，只要擁有一臺電腦、網頁瀏覽器和互連網接入，你就可以選擇自己需要的課程了。

註解　：
1)hone v. 磨練，用磨刀石磨
2)mushroomv. 迅速生長, 迅速增加
3)decade n. 十年
4)correspondencen. 相應，通信，信件
5)explosion n. 爆發，擴張
6)browsern. 瀏覽器