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...virtual university simply cannot offer the same experience its real world counterpart can. Sure, you can stick a few lectures online and have chatroom discussions, but that's like having an Oreo cookie without the cream. What's missing in a virtual learning experience is life outside the classroom...
...would argue that a quarter, perhaps more, of what undergraduates learn is learned outside the classroom. I can't remember the number of times a friend and I have stayed up late into the night (invariably the night before a paper is due) discussing subjects such as racial profiling and the causes of the English Revolution. Sections are helpful, of course, but their main importance is in laying the groundwork for further exchanges of ideas that would rarely occur without the physical proximity of other students. Distance learning, in contrast, is a very individual approach to learning complemented only...
Society also supports education acquired via traditional means. Take correspondence courses, for example. These courses offer a form of distance learning similar to that proposed by Saylor; in both, students sign up for courses and can get a degree without ever stepping foot in a classroom. Yet, degrees earned through established correspondence courses are commonly held to be inferior to those earned at universities. An online university would simply be the high-tech version of the correspondence course...
...long story short, the cuckold beat the lover senseless with a motorcycle helmet--sending him to the hospital--and for good measure, rammed the lover's Jeep into a hydrant. The police came, lawyers were hired, Lou and his wife split--and Lou ended up here in a classroom in Brooklyn, N.Y., as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors. Though the others chuckle at the fate of Lou's victim--after all, they wouldn't be here if they didn't want to kick someone's butt--instructor Alan Greenfield presents a good reason to count to 10 next...
...warm spring night, but Enko N. Kiprilov '00 is sitting in a Harvard classroom watching an instructor solve physics problems on the chalkboard...