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Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/study-finds-that-online-education-beats-the-classroom/

A recent 93-page report on online education, conducted by SRI International for the Department of Education, has a starchy academic title, but a most intriguing conclusion: “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.”
Provocative article
Une étude montre que des élèves de 12 ans obtiennent de meilleures performance avec l'apprentissage en ligne qu'en classe.
A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/11/AR2009091104312.html
Students starting school this year may be part of the last generation for which "going to college" means packing up, getting a dorm room and listening to tenured professors. Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet. The business model that sustained private U.S. colleges cannot survive.
This article proposes that many traditional universities are going to change as online, cheap education gets better and better.
100 Incredible & Educational Virtual Tours You Don’t Want to Miss | Online Universities
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2010/01/100-incredible-educational-virtual-tours-you-dont-want-to-miss/
Education Week: March 26, 2009
http://www.edweek.org/ew/toc/2009/03/26/index.html
Education Week posts Technology Counts 2009: Breaking Away From Tradition http://tinyurl.com/dkbjrs [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/1388211470]