There's even a way to whisper in class. The individual attention from the program's advisers and instructors impresses both current students and the newest recruits. That flexibility may come with the distance learning and technology. These may include live, Web-based instruction in which students hear faculty speak. They may see slides and other graphics, hear music and audio clips, as the professor discusses them.
Students chat on-line with the professor and each other.
She created a virtual children's story hour in a library, complete with background music. The flexibility of the program attracts many students such as Nancy Crow, MS '98 LIS , who graduated from the LEEP3 program in August. Crow is the director of the Four-Star Public Library in Mendon, a small rural library near Quincy. She is married to a farmer, has four children and says she did her coursework throughout the day. I'm not a night person, but I'd get up early in the morning to do my work.