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Cable Firm, Colorado University Team Up for Distance Learning.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 1999 by Greto, Victor
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 31 -- There are 15 million seats in traditional universities and 100 million adults who need additional education to stay on top of their jobs.
So said Glen Jones, founder of Englewood-based Jones Intercable in 1967, and, more recently, Jones International University, the first "virtual" distance learning university accredited by the Department of Education.
"The only thing that doesn't change is change, and now it's incessant," Jones said.
"Life is not linear anymore but circular. We never quite retire, we're always learning."
Because of Jones, Colorado is on the cutting edge of the burgeoning distance learning trend in higher education. The educational software produced by another...
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