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Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Tiny fish make big splash in e-learning - Eric Wilson, The Age Australia
Subtle changes are occurring throughout Australia's universities as e-learning forges new links between academics and students - both off and on campus - sometimes blurring the boundaries between educational sectors. This was highlighted by e-learning software executives at the WebCT user conference held at Manly in Sydney last month. Now claiming more than a million users, the platform was touted as supporting distance education and transforming university campus life. "What we have found is the students who are taking fully online courses come from on-campus too, because for one subject it might be more convenient," says Karen Gage, WebCT's vice-president of marketing. "There is also a phenomenon where different people participate when it's online, maybe because they are shy or because they want more time to compose their thoughts, which they can have online."
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