As Distance Education Evolves, Choices Reflect Institutional Cultures

At New York's Mercy College, all of the general-education courses that students can take online are also available in the traditional face-to-face format.

But at Fairleigh Dickinson University, in New Jersey, none of the online courses have in-the-classroom counterparts. In some subjects, students take a course either online or not at all.

Neither institution has a written policy requiring courses to be created in a certain way, but the two institutions are polar opposites in

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