September 1, 2006
A Professor, and His University, Count on Distance Education
Robert S. Stufflebeam had never taught an online course before Hurricane Katrina struck. After the storm ripped through the Gulf Coast, the only way he could reach his students, who had scattered across the country, was through the Internet.
Mr. Stufflebeam is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of New Orleans, which was the only institution in the city that offered courses in the fall of 2005, thanks to online education. A year later, the university has refurbished
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