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Saturday, April 02, 2005
Distance learning: Making a connection - Lauren Williams, Hampton Roads Daily Press
Dennis Cannon's favorite class - pre-veterinary medicine - is also his hardest. He submits assignments to a teacher he's never seen and does group projects with classmates he's never met.Unlike the rest of his classes at Heritage High School in Newport News, Cannon, an 11th-grader, can attend this class anywhere he wants - as long as he's in front of a computer."People in my class are from Connecticut, Virginia, Washington, Massachusetts," he said. "Everywhere."The use of distance learning - courses conducted through video or audio conferencing or the Internet - as a supplement to traditional classes is growing here and across the country. Most recently, Internet classes have generated a renewed interest in distance learning, education officials here say.
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