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Wednesday, August 28, 2002
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/237/learning/UVM_prospers_with_summers_online+.shtml UVM prospers with summers online Shari Rudavsky, Globe Correspondent To his delight, Nick Dangelis, a University of Vermont professor, recently met one of the students in his Introduction to Sociology course when she handed in a paper. Such encounters are normally standard practice for Dangelis, but this summer he's teaching a cyber course in which his interactions with students, including lectures, occur online. Distance learning, or online learning, has received a lot of attention over the past five years as a way to attract students from all over the world. The University of Vermont uses the medium to keep its own students connected to the school over the summer. ''The idea was that UVM has a lot of students from out of state. These kids, when they go home for summer, take courses at their local schools. Why not keep them tied to the mother ship?'' said Howard Davis, the school's director of instructional technology....
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