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Saturday, March 01, 2003
Welcome to the world of virtual classrooms, where learning is mandatory, but presence is optional - Jacy L. Youn, Hawaii Business
...“It really didn’t matter that I was on vacation, thousands of miles away from my classmates,” says Yukimura, marketing manager for Kauai’s Wilcox Memorial Hospital and a 2002 graduate of the University of Hawaii’s first-ever Neighbor Island MBA (NIMBA) program, who ultimately secured a connection through her hotel’s business center. “My professor was waiting on me, and I had to get my post in.” By “post,” she means her required contribution to the thread of daily discussions in her online class. It’s part of a new-fangled jargon associated with the newest boom in education: distance learning. With distance learning (also known as e-learning), students augment or replace traditional classroom learning with Internet-based classes, e-mails and online discussion boards, and even teleconferencing and live streaming video.
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