Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Wednesday, July 11, 2001

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House Subcommittee To Consider New Web Education Bill

A House subcommittee will mark up legislation this week that would alter education laws to allow more college students to use government-backed loans toward accredited courses offered online. The House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness is set to consider a bill offered by Rep. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., that would repeal the so-called "50 percent rule," which states that schools may offer no more than half of their classes via distance learning technologies....

 



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