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

Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Harvard Udergraduate Council Launches New Online Initiatives - Janie M. Tankard, Harvard CRIMSON
As they brainstormed innovative ways to benefit the student body, many ideas seemed conducive to a Web-based approach. “We were looking for things that the UC could do itself without much administrative approval and that wouldn’t cost that much,” Bowman says. “And we realized one great way to do this was through new online projects.” For inspiration, the pair looked at student government initiatives at other schools, including Princeton and Yale. Bowman says that these schools appeared “way ahead of Harvard in the online department,” noting that this trend might be the result of structural differences.

 



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