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

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Monday, September 17, 2001

http://www.pjstar.com/news/business/g55316a.html

Dial-up Degree
By STEVE TARTER, the Journal Star

PEORIA - Laurence Hornibrook doesn't expect to be the hit at his college reunion. That's because he never set foot on the Southern Illinois University campus where he earned a bachelor's degree in industrial technology in 1991. Hornibrook was stationed in Germany with the U.S. Air Force at the time and took classes on weekends with European-based SIU professors to earn that degree. And don't look for him to cause a stir at East Carolina University, where he earned his master's degree, or Indiana State University, where he's currently studying for a Ph.D. The reason is Hornibrook has been taking classes via the Internet instead of in a classroom....

 



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