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Monday, October 15, 2001
http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001101501u.htm For Sale: A Distance-Education Platform Developed in China By JEN LIN-LIU The Chinese government is offering to sell for $9.67-million a software package for online education that was developed by Hunan University, local newspapers reported on Thursday. The multimedia software package was created for China's first online-university project, developed at Hunan University in 1998. Since then, the government has chosen Qinghua University, Beijing Communications University, Zhejiang University, and Peking University, among other institutions, to carry out distance education through computer networks. Local newspaper reports say that as many as 45 universities in China provide online education, serving more than 50,000 students....
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