Word: fungaroli
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...while Saylor's idealistic vision of a virtual university for all is laudable, it will never be the Internet Ivy experience for which he hopes. The merits of distance education can best be summed up by Georgetown English Professor Carole Fungaroli's comment, "It's the same as sex on the Internet. You can get it online, but it's not as good as in person...
...became the talk of the highest ivory towers. And the reactions were mostly of the unpublishable kind. "Saylor's naivete is breathtaking," says David Noble, a history professor at Toronto's York University and a sharp critic of distance learning. "It's the quintessence of counterfeit education." Adds Carole Fungaroli, an English professor at Georgetown: "It's the same as sex on the Internet. You can get it online, but it's not as good as in person...
...Carole S. Fungaroli, an English professor at Georgetown University and the author of Traditional Degrees for Non-Traditional Students, has personally experienced the effect of a big-name school--and it seems little to do with the actual education...
...want to get a degree, you need to get a high-prestige one. Harvard buys a lot," Fungaroli says...
...Fungaroli, who attended George Mason University in Virginia, said that while she was pleased with her education, in the end she learned she needed the cache of a high-end degree...
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