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Should elite liberal-arts colleges allow distance-education companies to market their courses?
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"What is the dollar value of my education, my learning, my development?..."
"Viewing education, especially the liberal arts, from a capitalist venture perspective is a perverse and most apparent degeneracy of the liberal arts themselves..."
"If you can't do it, put courses on line, with in-house assets, then maybe you shouldn't be doing it at all..."
"I think that it may be time to read (or for us old-timers, re-read) Ralph Nader's Hucksters in the Classroom. Partners? Hardly..."
"I do a great deal of business via e-mail and I'm not sure what I would have done had the Y2K bug done serious damage to the Internet..."
"During the 1960s there was a new university founded by the State of Florida called Florida Atlantic University, 'Where tomorrow begins.'..."
"I must concur with Dr. James H. Joyner, Jr..."
"I have taught 8 courses using WebCT..."
"This debate has been interesting. I think Martin Irvine has hit upon the key issue here:..."
"Are ivy-league and 'ivy-quality' institutions worth the money? Absolutely..."
"Under the corporate proposal to provide learning..."
"I think that a partnership between business and educational institutions..."
"It is okay not to be left behind in this new information age..."
"Everyone seems to believe that distance-education will replace the traditional modes of learning at liberal arts college or universities..."
"Well, I think that there seems to be more going on here than meets the eye, at least in the case of Williams College..."
"The distance learning debate is muddled by false binary, either/or thinking and is further limited by a narrow sense of mission tied to one business model..."
"Students who attend elite liberal-arts colleges are paying for the privilege of interacting with brilliant minds..."
"Everyone wins. The institutions get additional money to put into their campus programs,..."
"Distance education for profit but at what cost?..."
"The utilization of computers is essential for teaching, but how exactly are distance learning WWW courses structured? I took a distance learning course at a major American university in the mid-1980s and..."
"Online access to the elite curricula and faculties of these top flight colleges is an exciting prospect. There are already..."
"A great idea for 2000! Ivy League professors and their colleges may not be interested, but they could..."
"Are the local faculties sure they want to do this? Online courses are very labor intensive, especially compared with..."
"I conducted a distance-learning course some years ago as an experiment..."
"Educational excellence is more than content. It is about process, personal growth, exposure and stimulation..."
"The elite institution is a world unto itself, and it should be left unto itself..."
"Williams' unique attributes as a full environment of higher education would not translate to learning 'at a distance'..."
"As a brand new alumna (99), my first reaction on hearing of these courses was to be shocked..."
"I think that distance learning might be a useful way for residential liberal arts colleges to fully utilize their investment in professors..."
"One of the primary reasons I chose to attend a small liberal arts college was the classroom environment..."
"For elite institutions such as Amherst, Williams and Brown, offering on-line courses poses several issues..."
"I'm in favor of offering a limited number of interactive audit courses via the Internet..."
"Distance education is here, it's here to stay, and it's a good thing..."
"The entire conversation about faculty members in elite colleges offering distance education courses..."
"From going co-ed to abolishing fraternities, Williams has always been an inclusive, forward-thinking institution,..."
"Certainly, distance learning has an important role to fill:..."
"As an alumnus of Williams College (class of 1983), I would not be in favor of this proposal..."
"If this was only offered as a way to audit courses, it seems worth exploring..."
"I would need to learn more about this, but my initial reaction is that for small liberal arts colleges, this would not fit into their mission..."
"Just two points to make to start with. 1. It is true that technology will fundamentally change the shape of the student-teacher interaction..."
"1. I have no problem with the profit-making aspect, assuming Williams negotiates for enough of the profits..."
"I see some advantages to distance learning and many disadvantages..."
"As an alumni of Williams class of '75) and therefor a beneficiary of its unique experience,..."
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