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Thursday, September 16, 2004
Despite University of Phoenix revelations, online learning will charge ahead - Ryan Johnson, Arizona Daily Wildcat
.... Clearly, high pressure sales combined with education is a bad mix. But don't dismiss what the University of Phoenix and its 129,000 online students have started. No, this scandal doesn't signal the end of online education. Rather, it will be merely a blip in its never-ending growth. So where's the UA at? Actually, farther along than you might think. In fall 2000, the Arizona Board of Regents created what's called the Arizona Regents University. It's basically just a title for classes that are that are available to students of UA, ASU and NAU. Of the 1,700 total classes, three quarters of them are strictly online. This year, students took 40,000 classes. Imagine: no worries about classrooms. Being able to easily add more students. Taking small groups interested from three universities and creating one full class. Imagine combining the best professors from each of the three universities. So UA students would have access to NAU biology professor Paul Keim, one of the world's leading experts on anthrax, and other universities would be able to share UA chemistry professor David Spurgeon.
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