November 2005

By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti

Distance education programs are often characterized by the double-edged sword of anonymity. On the one hand, the fact that students and instructors may not see each other lends a benignly faceless nature to the proceedings, in which race, gender, demographic characteristics, and any indication of background disappear. On the other, sometimes this same factor means that critical information is ignored, occasionally at the expense of the success of the students.

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