April 14, 2000
For-Profit Web Venture Seeks to Replicate the University Experience Online
Columbia University and five other educational and cultural institutions announced last week that they are collaborating on a for-profit Web site that will deliver online courses and other scholarly content.
Organizers say the site (http://www.fathom.com) will transplant into cyberspace the intellectual milieu of academe -- going beyond course offerings to include museum exhibitions, scholarly lectures, artistic performances, and the like.
"What Fathom
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