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Degrees, distance, and dollars

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The Internet is making higher education accessible to a whole new class of students---but not necessarily at a lower cost.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 53, Issue 9
          September 2010
          97 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/1810891
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