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Landscape architecture students as well as non-majors are finding
some landscape architecture classes can be accessed with the click
of a mouse.
By Lisa Speckhardt
The advent of online college courses brought predictions that traditional
college classes, with professors lecturing and students at desks
taking notes, would go the way of the dinosaurs. While that radical
change in the way college students are educated hasn’t yet
come to pass, online college courses are now commonplace, and landscape
architecture departments are jumping on the bandwagon (see “Distance
Learning: Back to the Future,” Landscape Architecture,
March 2001).
Why offer courses online? The obvious first answer is that they
enable learning from a distance—online courses make it possible
for students to take classes from their homes or offices, wherever
they may be.
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