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

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Friday, October 19, 2001

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5267-2001Oct16.html

Virginia's Answer to Enrollment Boom: 'Virtual' U.
By Amy Argetsinger, Washington Post Staff Writer

Virginia officials are planning a new "virtual" university that would let students earn degrees by stringing together online and traditional course work from several colleges across the state. The new institution -- designed to help accommodate a projected boom in enrollments statewide -- would open by July 2003, under a plan approved by state higher education officials yesterday. Yet many details of the new institution remain uncertain, and state officials said they must still hammer out agreements with the numerous colleges they hope will cooperate....

 



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