In “Roosevelt hopes computer classes open new doors” (Metro, Dec. 28), Meg McSherry Breslin reports the university’s desire “to bring more college classes to students through computers, allowing them to plug into their course work any time of the day.”
Happily, information about thousands of on-line courses is also available on-line. For example, Internet University (http://www.caso.com/iu/courses.html) currently lists more than 2,300 courses from more than 60 accredited providers, and the World Lecture Hall (http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/index.html) contains links to Web pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class material in about 100 academic disciplines from accounting to zoology.
Community colleges such as Elgin, Harper and Oakton are mentioned as local competition for on-line courses. During the fall semester, I led a team of faculty at the College of Lake County that also designed on-line courses for delivery during the spring semester. Information about CLC’s courses is available on-line at http://clconline.clc.cc.il.us.
