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On-line learning reaches into the classroom
Globe and Mail Staff

On-line courses are no longer just for distance education students. Schools are also finding they benefit those attending regular classes, allowing them to do the same things as their distance education peers. Now they can download course material, establish Internet research links, interact with fellow students and professors through chat rooms and bulletin boards and work together on an asynchronous or synchronous basis. In fact, the teamwork skills such interaction teaches students is valuable in and of itself, because it provides students with training for the real world of employment, says Jennifer Bolt, director of the Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology at Acadia University in Wolfville, N.S....

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