E-learning: chalk it up to progress.(Editor's Note) From: University Business | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: Goral, Tim | COPYRIGHT 2004 Professional Media Group LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

I READ AN ARTICLE ON CNN.COM, ENTITLED, "SOME PROFESSORS won't give up chalk for technology's sake." The article centered on Professor Tom Walsh, a University of Minnesota physics professor, who uses a giant piece of chalk to teach on a traditional blackboard. The problem is that the chalk dust gets sucked into the various electronics equipment in classrooms, causing them to go ka-put.

Walsh's quote on the matter was what you would expect from a physics professor, if he ...