Interesting article in today's Washington Post Magazine ........ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11197-2005Mar29.html To me, online classes (the accredited and legitimate ones, with proper, rigorous and documented oversight regimens), indeed do have "class" due to, in part, their state-of-the-art convenience which is not to be characterized as "ease." This characteristic makes notorious mill shills and flagrantly foul DL mill outlets easy to spot. Most of these substandard/no-standard entities replace DL's convenience with ease, which they then market to unsuspecting students (and co-conspirators alike) as meaning little to no work. What little work they provide are, of course, classically inferior and substandard. But QA-driven DL is on the rise and on the move ......... Thanks. ========================================== "Finding Classes With Class "Getting the Most Out of Online Education "By Dan Froomkin "The Washington Post "Sunday, April 3, 2005; Page W33 "Sharon Clark's favorite time to take her abnormal-psychology class is while the roast is cooking. "She heads over to the study of her Myrtle Beach, S.C., ranch house, sits down at her computer and starts responding to questions that her professor -- 2,000 miles away, at Brigham Young University in Utah -- has posted as part of the online course she's taking. "I don't have to worry about picking up the kids, driving home from work, getting dinner ready and then rushing out the door and fighting traffic to make a class on time," says Clark, a mother of three. "Once I'm home, I can start dinner and then go to the study." Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11197-2005Mar29.html
