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Academic Exchange Quarterly

| December 22, 2002 | McCourt, Julie; Kilduff, Margaret | COPYRIGHT 2002 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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When addressing the issue of on-line instruction and assessment, the essential underlying question to answer is whether on-line instruction is the "same as or different from" the teaching-learning experience before or without on-line instruction. The experience of the authors with online instruction at an academic health sciences university is that it is the same except in two important areas. The authors conclude on-line instruction does not need to be viewed as an intimidating medium of didactic experience, either by the student or the academic institution. In fact, it should be embraced as the new communication tool that the World Wide Web and the ...

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