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17 BizEd July/August 2014 BLEND ED As new technologies and pedagogies emerge, more schools are blurring the lines between online and on-campus education—and, in the process, offering online experiences that could rival, and in some cases surpass, those offered face to face. "O nline education" may have lost its inferiority complex. For years, courses delivered via online and distance formats were perceived as being of lesser quality than those delivered in brick-and-mortar classrooms. But that stigma is lifting as faster Internet speeds, sophisticated mobile devices, and robust col- laboration platforms support more nuanced and interactive online learning experiences. At schools like the University of Florida in Gainesville, which has offered some form of distance education since the 1970s, online courses are integrated into those offered face to face, not presented as separate offerings. For instance, one introductory undergradu- ate entrepreneurship course enrolls 720 stu- dents, 100 of whom take the same course remotely. Those 100 students access content via a mix of simulcast and recorded lectures, as well as interact with face-to-face students through the learning management platform and other tools, explains Tawnya Means, director of the Center for Teaching, Learn- ing, and Assessment at the university's War- rington College of Business Administration. Campus BY TRICIA BISOUX CARTH E R /TH I N KSTOCK

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