Online education no substitute for the real thing - Tampa Bay Times

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Online education no substitute for the real thing

By Donald R. Eastman, special to the Times
In Print: Sunday, February 12, 2012

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A recent White House gathering of university presidents concluded with the predictable pronouncement by Education Secretary Arne Duncan that "higher education must change its way of doing business because it has become unaffordable for too many Americans." President Barack Obama made the same point in his recent State of the Union speech and at the University of Michigan a day later, even suggesting — in one of the most politically pandering acts of his administration — that colleges should publish the salaries of their graduates as an indication of the quality of the education they received. • The subtext here is clear and foreboding: The U.S.