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November 17, 2010

Online education disrupting traditional academic models

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By Kabir Chibber, BBC

The centre of academic life at most universities is the library. The rows and rows of dusty, hastily-mended bound books and journals hint at a vast world of knowledge and draw a link between generations of students who have roamed the halls. But students in the engineering department at the University of Texas in San Antonio (UTSA) do not get that experience. Instead, they download whatever they want to any one of the terminals or their laptops. In September, the UTSA opened the first completely bookless library on a university campus in the US.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11735404

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