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Thursday, January 15, 2004
New standards will make sharing online education software easy and inexpensive - Sally Atwood, Technology Review
Say “online education” and most people imagine taking an occasional professional development course via the Web or studying at a dedicated nonresidential school such as the University of Phoenix or the Open University in England. But on the campuses of traditional universities such as MIT, more and more educators and administrators are using the term to describe something more comprehensive: the advent of Web-based learning-management systems.... In the last two years, advances in computing technology have led to more user-friendly interfaces and higher-speed processing that have made the systems even more attractive. As a result, faculty are flocking to the systems in droves. At MIT, for example, the number of professors registered to use the Institute’s learning-management system, Stellar, has skyrocketed from 50 in 2001 to 260 this year. Another jump is expected next year, here and at other universities not just around the country but around the world.
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