June 1, 2001

Report Cites Advantages of Online Study

By JANICE PASKEY

When it comes to learning, the online classroom provides a better forum for communication than does its traditional counterpart, according to an unpublished study by Canada's Athabasca University, a distance-education institution based in Alberta, and the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario.

Nicole Haggerty, a doctoral candidate in business at Ivey, was the study's principal author, along with Scott