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Pay Attention, Counsel!

By Stanley Jaskiewicz
September 28, 2010

As students returned to school recently, many may have been looking ahead to their next day off. And today, there are so many online schools that e-commerce executives are turning the chorus of Alice Cooper's classic 1972 schoolboy anthem “School's Out” ' “School's out forever” ' into reality by turning school into another form of e-commerce.

The number of online schools is immense, growing, and of every variety. Consider the following short lists ' and they are short, in terms of the online-education marketplace ' of online courses, online-course portals and news sources devoted to covering developments in online learning:

Several sites exist solely to cover online education, such as:

Even Bill Gates proudly proclaims that he still goes to school online (see, http://www.thegatesnotes.com/), although it is hard to imagine what degree would help him improve his position.

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