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Tailor-Made or Off-the-Peg? Virtual Courses in the Humanities

The article describes how the British Government sees the electronic campus as a "quick fix" for delivering its idea of the learning society and mass higher (and further) education. It suggests that this solution poses a number of major difficulties, especially for the humanities. The issu...

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Published in:	Computers and the humanities 2000-08, Vol.34 (3), p.255-264
Main Author:	Channon, Geoffrey
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