Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Learning about AIDS: Distance-learning programs help spread information - Elizabeth Querna, U.S. News

Scientists, universities, governments, and organizations spend millions of dollars annually searching for ways to prevent and cure AIDS. However, it takes time and effort for the results of their research to trickle down to developing countries where help is most needed. One way to disseminate new knowledge about AIDS could be to use computers for distance learning. Scientists from the Medical College of Wisconsin offered distance-learning programs to organizations all over the world that are helping fight AIDS to see if they would help.

 



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