June 16, 2000
Promise and Pitfalls in Distance Education for Alumni
With its presumed potential for vast new audiences, mountains of income, and innovations in pedagogy, distance learning has become the darling of high-tech academic planners. Initiatives are announced almost every day: an M.B.A. via the World Wide Web from Duke, engineering courses from Stanford for Silicon Valley professionals, for-profit distance-learning corporations from N.Y.U. and Columbia, and contracts for online courses and certificate programs negotiated by
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