After two years of denying that he had done anything wrong, the Speaker admitted in December that he had failed to seek proper legal guidance before using contributions to his tax-exempt foundation to finance a college lecture course, one that even he said was aimed at the partisan goal of electing a G.

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But as my colleague George Anders pointed out in comments on my story, the traditional long-lecture college course format is beginning to collapse.

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Faculty will still have the ability to interact with and assess directly their students while still leveraging some of the efficiencies of putting lecture and other course content online.

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Each year the course consisted of ten lectures and each lecture consisted of four hours of classroom instruction.

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She, of course, laughed, thus interrupting the lecture.

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One course in particular captured his imagination: a lecture series on building machines that could manipulate molecules.

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Of course, just because a course is online does not mean it will be good, just as not every traditional lecture or classroom experience is good or bad.

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