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Article: TECHNOLOGY ALTERS LITERATURE CLASS DISCUSSIONS AT ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 29, 2009
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ELIZABETH CITY, N.C., July 24 -- Elizabeth City State University issued the following press release:
This summer, the list of online courses at Elizabeth City State University included two courses that have long been cherished for their classroom discussions-English 425-Shakespeare and Black Writers in American Literature.
The ECSU faculty who teach those online courses, admit the lack of classroom discussions was one of their early concerns. Classroom discussions, after all, create an instant exchange between students and the instructor. The language of a play written in the late 1500s hardly reflects today's use of the English language. For Dr. Chantelle MacPhee, the instructor for ...