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Saturday, January 07, 2006
More S.D. students taking classes online: Increasingly, lecture halls are losing out to Internet - RANDY HASCALL, Sioux Falls ArgusLeader
A rapidly growing number of college students are avoiding lectures and early morning commitments by taking classes online through South Dakota's public universities. So many in fact, that the number of credit hours delivered electronically in 2004-05 is 36 percent higher than the previous year. More than four out of 10 of those students are even living on campus, but for one reason or another choose to take classes over their personal computers. "Frankly, we were surprised by that," Board of Regents President Harvey Jewett of Aberdeen said.
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