Distance education comes home: no longer just for distance ed, new technologies are changing the most traditional college campuses.
University Business › Vol. 5 Nbr. 7, September 2002
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Distance education comes home: no longer just for distance ed, new technologies are changing the most traditional college campuses.
Everything about Hamilton College in Clinton, NY says, "Come live here." This top liberal arts, residential college seems the antithesis of distance education. From its rural hillside campus to the school's description of itself as a "vibrant community" with small classes, everything at Hamilton seems to center on face-to-face contact between an exceptional faculty and student body. In fact, students can't take any Hamilton courses entirely online. So how is it that an online learning system (Hamilton uses Blackboard; www.blackboard.com) has become one of the mainstays of the college's curr...
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