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For what it is worth, I published a small study of the effectiveness of on line classes in CAUSE/EFFECT magazine last summer. For those of you that are interested an e-print of that is available http://zebu.uoregon.edu/special/cceds.html at this link.

The bottom line is that the results, as expected, are quite mixed. There are both good and bad aspects, which I tried to report on objectively, which keeps the entire question in its present state of ambiguity.

As others have remarked, success mostly lies in the motivation of the student. Not much different than the traditional classroom.

: -- Greg Bothun, Professor of Physics, University of Oregon (posted 10/28, 3:05 p.m., E.D.T.)

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