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Thursday, March 07, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002030701u.htm A New Handbook Collects Essays About the Nuts and Bolts of Online Learning BROCK READ With the recent demise of distance-learning ventures at both New York and Temple Universities and the continuing fallout from the dot-com crash, online educators can be forgiven for approaching their field with as much caution as exuberance, according to Allison Rossett, a professor of educational technology at San Diego State University. "The honeymoon is over," she says. But Ms. Rossett remains "ecstatic" about the possibilities of online learning: "I am a believer," she says. And a compendium of essays that she compiled and edited, The ASTD E-Learning Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 2002), proves that her field is still a fertile one for professors and professionals. The book offers more than 500 pages of advice on a broad range of issues facing online educators.....
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