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

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Thursday, April 04, 2002

http://www.uwiretoday.com/computing040302002.html

Merits of Web, TV classes stir debate
By Adrienne Moore, The State Hornet (California State U.-Sacramento)

(U-WIRE) SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Faculty are divided over whether distance education courses are as beneficial to students as those taught in a traditional classroom environment, even as California State University-Sacramento searches for ways to accommodate a growing student population. Distance learning connects the teacher and student via computer, television, telephone and cable networking to create a virtual classroom. Some faculty say it is a style of instruction that detracts from the institutional-centered model of classrooms and lacks the necessary interaction between students, their peers and faculty....


 



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