July 15, 2005

By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti

On many campuses, online education has taken an evolutionary path quite different from that of traditional classroom courses. Whereas traditional education in the United States is the beneficiary of more than three centuries of adaptation of traditions imported from Europe, online education in this country has developed over perhaps only three decades. At many campuses, it is still difficult to tell if online learning is a novelty, a function of the IT department, or a true peer of other academic departments and divisions.

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