RE: [ifets] Careful use of the net

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Christopher Eliot (eliot@cs.umass.edu)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:49:22 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:49:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Eliot <eliot@cs.umass.edu>
Subject: RE: [ifets] Careful use of the net

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Joe Beckmann wrote:

> It's not happening until it happens. Again, are there any places "hosting"
> or "franchising" courses from other places, for credit, for tuition, with
> what kinds of staffing and supervision? I really don't think it is
> happening,
[...]
> Who knows? Anybody out there?

I think we are moving in this direction. I am connected with a group at
the University of Massachusetts which develops educational technology for
use on campus. We have projects to provide support for courses in history,
art history, chemistry and computer science. I think there are another
half dozen that I don't know about.

As a first step we are "hosting" online courses within the university.
Licencing them to other universities is a logical next step.

Some of the pubishing companies are also building web sites. I heard
of one that is connected with textbooks that supposedly gets a million
hits a month.

-Chris Eliot

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