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

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Tuesday, October 16, 2001

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/011015/education/right.htm

Do you have the right stuff? For most online courses, fortunately, your tech doesn't have to be too high
BY ULRICH BOSER

Will Bryant and Al Williams graduated from the same online M.B.A. program at the University of Baltimore last January. Bryant, 41, a finance director at Johns Hopkins University who lives in the city, used a fairly basic Dell desktop computer with a Pentium II processor but says he couldn't have managed the almost daily correspondence without his high-speed, 128-plus-kilobytes- per-second cable modem. Williams, 39, had no trouble using a slower 56-kbps dial-up modem. What made it possible for him to do the class work, he says, was his Pentium III Dell Latitude laptop; he travels extensively in his job as chief information officer at MRO Software....

 



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