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Wednesday, November 24, 2004
ISU study seeks to improve virtual learning -PHIL ROONEY, Daily Nonpareil
A three-year, $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education will allow Iowa State University's College of Education to become the nation's first teacher education program to prepare undergraduates for virtual schooling. "Virtual learning is sort of one of those buzz words for learning with technology," said Niki Davis, director of Iowa State's Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching and the project's director. In virtual learning, sometimes referred to as distance learning but excluding correspondence courses, teachers and students are not in the same place and two-way video and Internet courses may be involved. The Iowa Communications Network (the state-owned fiber optic network that connects to every school district) is one way much virtual schooling takes place in Iowa. Other courses may be taught over the Internet, and sometimes the sources may be blended
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