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

Friday, August 10, 2001

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Longtime Professor Helps Guide Greece's New Distance-Learning Institution
By DANIEL DEL CASTILLO

After spending 25 years teaching at the California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, Spyros Amourgis returned to his native Greece to help establish the Hellenic Open University, of which he is now vice president. The university, a distance-learning institution, is taking a radically new approach to learning in a country with a traditional -- even archaic -- approach to higher education.... Last year, more than 50,000 people applied for the university's first 5,000 slots....

 



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