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Wired Lehigh Looks to Go the Distance
"Next year, some students accepted to Lehigh University will meet their professor and fellow classmates in a chat room instead of a classroom.

Beginning in January 2001, high school students will have a chance to take free college courses from the Pennsylvania-based university over the Web. "

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The New York Times Billionaire Plans Online University
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"A 35-year-old software billionaire said yesterday that he would spend $100 million to realize his vision of 21st century higher education: a giant free Web site that would provide access to what he calls the "10,000 greatest minds of our time," in lectures and interviews recorded especially for the venture."

"Mr. Saylor imagines that his company's future lies in a world where the Jetsons would feel at home: personally-tailored information -- like a disembodied voice reporting that a doctor's appointment or flight has been canceled -- that would be broadcast directly to people through their car radios and cellular phones, which would then offer them an instant opportunity to respond.

Wall Street, at least, thinks it is hardly science fiction: MicroStrategy's stock has rocketed in less than a year from $7 a share to nearly $268.625 at the market's close yesterday."

The Guardian Students on silicon campus
"Universities are dead. Campuses are defunct and everyone gets their degree online. Welcome to the future. Or is it? It's a spectre that haunts the education system, and it is already sending ripples of change through the world's learning communities."

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