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>Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:18:37 -0400
>From: Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: #7242 the fate of those tapes once you've gone digital
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We also skipped the CD stage, so to speak, and students here have the 
choice between taped copies and the streaming audio on the web (set up 
similarly to yours, I think). Since we still have our tape duplicators I 
get permission to copy tapes for students as well as permission to 
duplicate. We only give out  a very few tapes now but they are still 
useful for some situations.
It helps that we have a lab where students can come to listen to the 
online audio if their home computers do not have good "reception." But 
if they want the CDs I guess they can buy them from the publishers.... 
(and because CDs are so easy & cheap to copy and  bundle, unlike tapes, 
some courses do have the students order the CDs as a set, with the 
online audio there only as a backup).

Judy Shoaf
University of Florida