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

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
No Such Thing as 'Old School' - Aaron Passman, Jewish Exponent
Online learning has simply boomed in the past several years. For example, the online learning program at Gratz College in Melrose Park enrolls roughly 200 students, about 15 percent of whom are senior citizens, according to Ronni Ticker, director of online and distance learning there. Ticker said that older online students were often "ready to do something more serious and explore things in an academic sense, as opposed to a continuing-education sense."

 



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