Why Online Education Will Never Replace the Classroom Experience

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The University of Phoenix, a for-profit online school, recently hired this guy as an adjunct English professor. Among other things, he allegedly ogled a student’s chest while teaching in Virginia public schools, something that should be a little harder to do over the Internet…