Talk:Virtual education

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[edit] Merger Proposal

Online tutoring covers the same ground as this article, but its written in a less encyclopedic style and lacks references. I'd suggest replacing it with a redirect to this article. --Bazzargh (talk) 11:08, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

While you have a point about the lack of reference, I think a section on Online tutoring provides a more in depth analysis of the specifics of tutoring in a virtual realm as opposed to adding tutoring the broader topic of virtual education. In other words, the online tutoring would get lost on a virtual education page.Mark Quigley —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.98.144.224 (talk) 19:01, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm not saying delete all of it - but really there is very little on this page that isn't either repeating whats on the virtual education page, or WP:OR; and some of it (like the lead) is just verbiage that needs cut. As it stands we have a number of articles covering very similar ground and at the very least this page needs a reference which differentiates online tutoring from virtual education or the myriad of other pages listed here: Electronic learning#See_also (some of which have already been merged, so that page needs trimmed). I get the feeling that a lot of these pages have been added by companies pushing keywords, and havent been trimmed agressively enough --Bazzargh (talk) 10:48, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

I agree with this, and am going ahead with the redirect. If anyone thinks that there's stuff worth saving from the other article, they can look at the article history and merge it here. Frankly, I agree that this article is much better, and covers the same ground. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 07:15, 30 April 2008 (UTC)