April 3, 2009
The Global Campus Meets a World of Competition
Online-education venture at the U. of Illinois tries to distinguish itself from other distance-learning programs
The University of Illinois Global Campus, a multimillion-dollar distance-learning project, is up and running. For its March-April 2009 term, it has enrolled 366 students.
Getting to this point, though, has looked a little like the dot-com start-up bubble of the late 1990s. Hundreds of Internet-related companies were launched with overly ambitious goals, only to later
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