August 13, 1999

2 Professors and Student Offer Mixed Views of Distance Education

Take some on-line courses. Try out life as a distance-ed student. Those were two of the items on Christine Maitland's to-do list for her sabbatical.

But Ms. Maitland, higher-education coordinator for the National Education Association, was disappointed to realize that she couldn't just sit down, sign on, and start learning. First, she had to download the software for her three education-technology courses,

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