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• College & University - Electronic Essay Readers
  
  In this College English article, Anne Herrington and Charles Moran evaluate two programs that electronically read essays and raise serious questions about their effectiveness. This article is recommended reading for anyone who is contemplating or being asked to contemplate machine readers.
  
  http://www.ncte.org/inbox/pdfs/05212002/CE0634What.pdf
• The Marketplace of Ideas American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper No. 49 by Louis Menand Distinguished Professor of English, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Excerpt: 'The humanities disciplines don't seem to be dying out, but they do feel dislocated. They are institutionally insecure because they appear to have lost their philosophical roots. The question this paper attempts to address is exactly what those roots were in the first place.'

• HigherEdWorld - a new wrinkle in course delivery: fowarded message from John Koch.
• Online Writing Evaluation The Educational Testing Service offers a new way to test writing samples.
• Competition? Barnes and Noble ventures onto "our" turf. . .
• Distance Education links:
  • http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html brings together distance education information and resources from Wisconsin, national and international sources
  • Distance Education at a Glance http://www.uidaho.edu/evo/distglan.html website based on the books Distance Education - Strategies and Tools and Distance Education - A Practical Guide