Overview: Online Learning Keeps On Getting More Popular

Here’s a brief but good overview of what’s up right now in distance education from The Christian Science Monitor by a columnist who used to teach online classes at Brandeis University. Beyond the growth in the sheer number of people doing e-learning, he covers the improvements in the quality of online classes, some interesting new twists (like the way Skype allows foreign language students to talk regularly with native speakers and get instant feedback on their progress from professors) and the need for more professors who truly understand how to use online teaching technologies to keep their classes from being too impersonal.
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