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Monday, August 26, 2002
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/education/3914319.htm Hardwired into better learning Lafayette freshmen go digital to adapt to life on campus. James M. O'Neill, Inquirer Staff Writer Lafayette College had a problem. Each year it took far too long for freshmen to feel comfortable with the give-and-take style of discourse that professors use in the classroom.... So today, as Lafayette's 584 freshmen invade the Easton campus, dozens have already gained crucial new experience - debating their professors. As many colleges do, Lafayette required incoming freshmen to read a book this summer, Thomas L. Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. But, unlike most colleges, Lafayette went further. It created discussion boards on its Web site, organized around questions designed to prompt student debate on larger issues raised in the book....
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