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Wednesday, December 25, 2002
An Online Course Gets Students Thinking About Drinking - MATTHEW L. WALD, NY Times
...Online education is often considered a form of "distance learning" for students who are physically remote from their instructors, but AlcoholEdu is intended for use in a dormitory, with high-speed Web access. (The course can be taken using a modem, but with streaming video, it is painfully slow.) Its supporters say it takes advantage of a different characteristic of work done at a personal computer: anonymity.... Colleges have other reasons to like the online idea. "Having some sort of basic way of educating students about alcohol makes a lot of sense," said Jack H. Turco, director of health services at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. But with an incoming class of 1,100 students "it's next to impossible to get individual classes, and enough people to teach them."
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