Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Wednesday, August 15, 2001

http://chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001081501u.htm

Hungry Minds, a Onetime Distance-Education Leader, Is Sold to John Wiley & Sons
By MICHAEL ARNONE

The publishing company John Wiley & Sons has bought Hungry Minds Inc., a distance-education pioneer, but doesn't intend to revive the latter's distance-learning programs. Wiley will instead pursue its own new distance-learning projects, including a faculty-resource network to train instructors to use online content. "The distance-learning side of Hungry Minds is dormant," a Wiley spokeswoman, Susan Spilka, said Tuesday. "At this time, we don't have any plans to revive it."...

 



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