My two cents:
My admittedly limited experience with continuing ed students -- and here =
I defer to my former colleague Beth Baldwin -- is that what they are =
seeking as much as the intellectual stimulation of course material is =
the stimulation of interacting with a class, preferably a class of =
various ages. Your DL would need to be interactive to make it more =
attractive.
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From: Jeffrey R Galin[SMTP:galin+@PITT.EDU]
Sent: Friday, September 27, 1996 11:48 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list RHETNT-L
Subject: Re: Beyond these walls...
Now, I can invision a virtual learning center that does =
community
work and might have corporate or governement sponsorship. Participants
would sign up for a series of courses from facilitators from all over =
the
world. I can invision, say a Learning for Life organization that caters
to the growing continuing education market. I heard statistics the =
other
day that said Americans are living to an average age of 83 now. Many of
them are bored. A neighbor of mine in her seventies is taking classes =
at
Pitt. I'd be willing to bet that she would rather take a course online =
if
she had the option.