Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Sunday, November 05, 2006
More classes on campus taken online - RALPH LOOS, Tennessean
Slide over, laptop-lugging, work-at-will professional. Lounging and logging on next to you is a brand-new species of telecommuter. The college student. More and more traditional 18- to 25-year-old university students in Tennessee are mixing online classes with on-campus classes. Be it late-night literature or pre-breakfast political science, students and school officials say the desire for flexibility is driving online enrollments. "One night I logged into my English literature class at 1 a.m.," Rebekah Weiler, a junior history major at Middle Tennessee State University, said. "I've taken the class in hotel rooms, shops, parks."

 



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