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Monday, March 04, 2002
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyKey=78109&category=B Online learning casts an ever-widening net -- More colleges are offering, and more students are taking, virtual classes ALAN WECHSLER, Staff writer, Times Union Professor Dan Berg taught a graduate-level class last semester at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute without ever setting foot in a classroom. And many of his students didn't even bother coming to campus. Such is the benefit of the Internet. Berg's course, Global Strategic Management of Technological Innovation, was taught live in the spring of 2001. The class was filmed on digital tape, and then uploaded onto a Web site. In the fall, 52 students paid $2,100 apiece to view one of Berg's lectures each week over the Internet. They e-mailed questions, participated in student chat rooms and took their tests over the computer. Most students live outside the Capital Region....
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