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December 27, 2013

College classes move online to meet student demand

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By DIANE D’AMICO, the Press of Atlantic City

Traditional colleges also are offering a greater number of online courses and degrees as they work to meet students’ desire for flexibility and alternate paths. But it is a challenge for colleges to keep up with rapidly changing technology that can accommodate all the ways students learn and communicate. “The future of online education has to change to meet student expectations,” said Matthew Cooper, assistant provost at Thomas Edison. He said the school has switched from the Blackboard delivery system to Moodle and Google Docs. It also moved content into cloud storage, where students can download it to whatever device they are using. “We have to have technology that is compatible with all the other technology,” he said.

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/education/college-classes-move-online-to-meet-student-demand/article_512b3cf2-660e-11e3-9e5e-0019bb2963f4.html

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