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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Online Learning: More students are going online and earning college degrees without setting foot on campus - Brenda J. Buote, Boston Globe
Forget about waking with the sun and dashing out the door to make it to class on time. The Internet is transforming college life. Instead of shuffling sleepy-eyed into a lecture hall, a growing number of students are attending class in cyberspace. more stories like thisFor some of the students in this area, "distance learning" - as online education is commonly called - is merely a convenient option. For others, it is a necessity. "There was no way I could have been enrolled full-time if it were not for the online classes," said April Amirault-Doherty, a single mother to a teenage daughter and 8-year-old triplets who managed to take classes at Northern Essex Community College while juggling family life with the demands of running a painting company.
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