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thenewgreen  ·  4023 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are college costs? | MattBruenig | Politics

There's not doubt that one of the greatest aspects of the classroom setting is the interaction between students and between students and teacher. How can distance learning recreate this? Would you have needed to be in the room with the prof to have experienced what you did to the fullest extent? Could that prof have "known your name" even in a distance learning environment via "chat" or "hangout" sessions?