January 14, 2000
Faculty Report at U. of Illinois Casts Skeptical Eye on Distance Education
Distance education will not be the gold mine that some administrators imagine, predict 16 professors at the University of Illinois, because providing high-quality instruction is more costly and time-consuming on the Internet than in a traditional classroom.
A report from the group, to be officially released this week, says good teaching is possible online, but only by lowering student-to-instructor ratios and taking other steps to counteract the disadvantages
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