April 1, 2006

Many distance education programs are created with a sort of “build it and they will come” attitude; that is to say with only an informal or intuitive system of quality control. This doesn’t work well when your students are professional, working engineers at companies like Boeing and GE, says Tom Smith, director of telecommunications programming in the Department of Engineering Professional Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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