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

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Thursday, May 09, 2002

http://www.journalstar.com/local?story_id=6689&past=

Supporters defend distance learning
MARTHA STODDARD / Lincoln Journal Star

It took 11 years for Elmer Smith to finish his bachelor's degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The married father had to find courses that would fit both his full-time work schedule and his degree requirements. Now distance and evening courses offered through the university's Division of Continuing Studies allow similar students to finish within six years, he told members of the Academic Planning Committee Wednesday. But cutting more than $840,000 from the division's budget could make it more difficult again for students to find the courses they need in the sequence they need, said Smith, who administers the Evening Degree Programs for Continuing Studies....

 



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