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When a liberal arts college starts teaching online

When a liberal arts college starts teaching online

How can a traditional liberal arts campus practice distance learning?  Vassar College launched a pilot program to take face-to-face learning from a residential setting into cyberspace, and its academic computing director, Steve Taylor, tells the story at the Academic Commons site

The program addressed a non-residential, non-face-to-face need: the summer reading assignment for incoming first-year…

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> Super high-speed networks are usually the dominion of research universities that need to manage lots of information and transmit it very quickly. Liberal arts colleges, which are less likely to be running supercomputers or logging massive quantities of research data, have not typically deployed them. > That could soon change. The National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education is planning to announce a partnership with Internet2 aimed at bringing liberal arts colleges up to speed on advanced networking. Seen at [Inside Higher Ed](http://www.insidehighered.com/)