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

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Tuesday, July 30, 2002

http://chronicle.com/free/2002/07/2002073001t.htm

Blackboard's Chairman Edits a Scholarly Work on the Internet and Higher Education
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The trick colleges face in adopting online learning lies in wedding traditional principles to new technologies, according to Matthew Serbin Pittinsky, chairman of Blackboard Inc., the educational-software company. "E-learning is really about the oldest notion that higher education has ever known, which is to build a living and learning environment that's open 24-7," he says. In a new book that he edited, Mr. Pittinsky examines e-learning's principles, its technological needs, and its financial viability -- "all the different aspects of putting in place a successful environment, from the pipes to the policies," he says....

 



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