November 5, 1999
Community College's Course for Instructors Helps Keep Students
Jim D. Simpson says he remembers when Tomball College began putting courses on the Internet -- because an unusually large number of students came to his office with complaints.
Many of the students said the on-line courses were poorly done. "Sometimes they weren't that polite," says Mr. Simpson, who is an associate dean at the college, a campus of North Harris Montgomery Community College. "They wanted their money back." Only about 40 per cent of the students who enrolled in on-line
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