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Monday, December 31, 2001
http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=5917 Hopes for Distance Learning in 2002 Sally M. Johnstone .... I do not mean to imply that taking a course from a specific institution should be free. The costs of activities associated with actually taking a course for credit must be covered. It may even be possible for some institutions to make money offering such courses. But not all courses or sets of course materials can be profitable. Because there is not always money to be made, we can pull the knowledge out of any specific course. We can technologically open the vast store of human knowledge to anyone on earth who wants it. We can begin to re-create the equivalent of the original vision for public libraries: free access to knowledge....
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