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

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Tuesday, August 28, 2001

http://www.govexec.com/features/0801/0801managetech2.htm

eArmy U - A College of One
By Brian Friel bfriel@govexec.com

At home near Fort Benning, Ga., Army Staff Sgt. Raymond Honea tucks his 3-year-old son into bed at night, fires up his laptop and logs into a virtual classroom at Central Texas College in Killeen, Texas. Since March, Honea has taken two online courses toward his associate’s degree—the first courses he’s taken since graduating from high school in 1985. Drill Sgt. Mark Young marches a line of privates into a Fort Benning classroom for training. While keeping an eye on the privates, Young pops open his laptop and works on homework for a course he’s taking for his associate’s degree from Troy State University at Fort Benning. After the privates quiet down in the barracks at night, Young hooks into the Internet to send his assignment off to his professor....

 



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