Social Bonds Found to Be Crucial in Online Education

A power failure in a dormitory illustrated the importance of social bonds for distance-education students, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The university's new distance-education students are required to stay in a campus dorm for a two-week summer "boot camp" in which they get to know their fellow students and also take an introductory course. One night in the summer of 1996, the dorm lost its electricity, leaving

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