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Thursday, July 07, 2005
Credibility helps increase online course popularity - Adam Hines, Purdue Exponent
Last year, 3,000 students took online classes from Purdue. And all of them were full-time students on the West Lafayette campus. On a national level, the amount of students enrolled in online courses is greatly increasing. A new report released recently by Eduventures Inc. said the number of students enrolled in courses that took place solely online totaled nearly one million. That was a 500,000-student increase from 2002. Sean Gallagher, a senior analyst with Eduventures, said that the widespread increase in enrollments is an indicator of the increasing public acceptance for online education. Online education, said Gallagher, has gone from an experimental option to a mainstream alternative.
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