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One overarching conceit of cyberphiles is the absurd notion that distance learning can adequately replace classroom instruction. Given the choice, students will always prefer interacting with real teachers and students in a real (rather than just a virtual) setting. It seems to me a safe prediction that ten years from now, computer technology will be used, as it largely is now, as an occasionally useful supplement to classroom instruction, not as a replacement for it.

-- Daniel L. Wick, Director, Summer Sessions University of California, Davis (posted 1/19, 9 a.m., E.S.T.)
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