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Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Virtual Universities: Real Possibilities -Rhonda M. Epper and Myk Garn, Educause Review
Virtual colleges/universities (VCUs), as we know them in the United States,1 were created amid the technology boom of the mid-to-late 1990s.... Then 2001 brought an economic downturn, hitting the technology sector especially hard and driving more realistic assessments of the realities, costs, and payoffs of distance learning. In the following years, whereas Internet-based distance learning slowly became a growing enterprise for individual campus-based initiatives, the multi-campus consortial VCUs remained neither fully embraced nor fully understood by the higher education community. The VCU has been questioned as a duplication of institutional responsibility and an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy—especially during tight budget years. Yet one fact is certain: while policy leaders, institutional leaders, VCU leaders, and industry observers debate the value and appropriate role for VCUs, students are enrolling in courses via the Web sites and are using these services to meet their educational goals.
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