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Review title: new form of education?
Product review: The book looks into how effective long distance teaching and learning can be, when you do this with the Web. The contrast is with traditional teaching, where the instructor and students are in the same classroom. And also with the earlier implementation of long distance education - doing this by correspondence.The Web can give far greater immediacy and feedback than earlier long distance methods. No surprise. But consider the word 'communities' in the title. It means more than just a student asking questions of the instructor. The book also looks at the extent to which a community can exist amongst students who have never physically met. Again, the Web offers great promise. Thus far, it is hard to quantify solid numbers for this effect. But plausibly, the Web could indeed enable this new form of education.
