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http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,295017946,00.html?

Web-assisted course to make debut at BYU
By Jeffrey P. Haney, Deseret News staff writer

PROVO — For many college freshmen, English 115 is a semester of two-page essays, lengthy lectures in a packed auditorium and fighting 200 other students for a few minutes with the professor. Such required classes are a headache for college leaders, too. The courses, which all students must take to complete general-education credits, are expensive, demand a lot of classroom space and are difficult to monitor for quality. Brigham Young University is looking at Web sites and e-mail messages as the keys to solving the problem....

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