The distance-education courses are offered through Wharton Direct. Typically 50 to 100 students take a course at a time. Online courses use streaming video for live and interactive Web casts and chat rooms. The Wharton Direct Web site functions as a classroom, library, professor's office, and study hall. It allows working adults to enhance their business education without coming to the campus for a week or more.
Professors use the same material for distance education as they do for our traditional courses.
A professor may find an article in a financial journal while riding home on the train and want to share it with a finance class the next day. Under certain circumstances, college and university professors copy and distribute works without permission from copyright owners if the four factors set forth in section 107 of the Copyright Law apply. Because the law is somewhat vague, institutions like ours encourage professors to follow standard guidelines that have been around almost two decades. A reference guide published by the American Library Association and the National Education Association recommends following guidelines suggested by the ALA's 1982 Model Policy Concerning College and University Photocopying for Classroom, Research and Library Reserve Use. The agreement was made among publishers, authors, and librarian organizations.