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Sunday, February 06, 2005
Moratorium on new online college courses sought - Michael Cass, the Tennessean
Thanks to the reach of the Internet, you can sit in your pajamas in Nashville, take a class from a professor in Johnson City and apply it toward a degree from the University of Memphis. But a state lawmaker says he is worried that colleges and universities in those three cities and others could be spending money developing the same online courses — negating the whole point of distance learning. Sen. David Fowler, R-Signal Mountain, is calling for a moratorium on the development of online classes until the state's two higher education systems can show they're able to prevent unnecessary duplication. In an online environment, only one school in the Tennessee Board of Regents system, for example, needs to offer American history, said Fowler, who recently filed a bill that would enforce the moratorium.
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