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Sunday, February 17, 2002
http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=6078 U.S. Distance Learning: A "Cottage Industry" Sally M. Johnstone All the available data seems to indicate that online courses and programs are proliferating steadily. Yet they are, by and large, still quite faculty-centered and adhere to the traditional "one size fits all" model of pedagogy. A single faculty member designs the course, creates the materials (with some help from specialized software packages), manages the class, and assesses the students. The courses are taught in the same old semester format, based on the amount of time a student sits in his or her class. The means of measuring the length of a course was designed to manage students coming to a physical space for their learning opportunities....
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