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eArmyU and the Future of Distance Education
George Lorenzo

According to Dian Stoskopf, director of the U.S. Army's Continuing Education System office, as of March 14, 2002, 15,834 soldier-students have signed agreements to participate in eArmyU, the largest military education initiative since the GI Bill (personal communication, March 14, 2002). eArmyU, which is officially called Army University Access Online (AUAO), first started offering online asynchronous courses in January 2001; it is now nearing the middle of its second year of operation. Stoskopf added that funding has been allocated to accept another 17,166 students by October 1, 2002, for an estimated grand total of 33,000 students to be enrolled in fully online higher education degree and certificate programs through the Army's mass-online education operation (personal communication, March 11, 2002). By the end of 2005, the eArmyU program anticipates enrolling 80,000 students....

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