Students Study Course On-Line Hook Up Modem, Dial Up FCCJ for Sociology
Desmon, Stephanie, The Florida Times Union
It's 6:30 a.m. and Sharon Horton has a few minutes to herself.
Her husband just left for work and her four children, all under
the age of five, are still tucked snugly into their beds.
So she heads off to sociology class -- without leaving her home
in Jacksonville's Marietta section, without hiring a
baby-sitter. She simply flips on her computer, dials into the
Florida Community College at Jacksonville computer and starts
reading the week's lecture.
Horton is one of 19 students enrolled in Professor Bill
Nes-Smith's Introduction to Sociology course taught entirely via
computer, the first …
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Article title: Students Study Course On-Line Hook Up Modem, Dial Up FCCJ for Sociology.
Contributors: Desmon, Stephanie - Author.
Newspaper title: The Florida Times Union.
Publication date: February 4, 1996.
Page number: Not available.
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COPYRIGHT 1996 Gale Group.
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