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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Wired up for learning - Peter Walker, CNN
The traditional image of a business school class is a group of students scribbling furiously with pens in a windowless lecture room. But these days, they are just as likely to be sitting in a comfortable armchair with a notebook computer and a cappuccino. Electronic learning, where students study, submit work and receive feedback via computers and the Internet, is an increasing fact of university life, all the more so on MBA courses where students tend to be especially pressed for time, sometimes even holding down a full-time job as well. A sign of the ever-increasing importance of e-learning came with the recent news that students at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business can now use Apple's iTunes Web sites to download speeches, interviews and conference presentations as well as the usual rock and pop albums.
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