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

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Wednesday, August 22, 2001

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,540239,00.html

Online university to open in 2003
David Cohen, EducationGuardian.co.uk

Universitas 21 Global, the online university, is expected to be unveiled next month. Following negotiations that have dragged on for almost a year, the venture, jointly sponsored by the information provider Thomson Corp and the consortium of elite institutions known as Universitas 21, is expected to be launched in New York. The U21 network, an elite group of 18 universities, including four in Britain, hopes to capitalise on the surging demand for post-secondary education in Asia and Latin America by making graduate courses available to prospective students in areas under served by traditional campuses....

 



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