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

Thursday, December 04, 2008
Online Higher Education Gets High Marks from Educators - Jeffrey Thomas, News Blaze
More than one-fifth of all students involved in higher education in the United States - 3.9 million students - were taking at least one online course during the fall of 2007. According to a new report, students, faculty and college administrators agree that e-learning reduces or eliminates such barriers to higher education as distance, time, commuting costs, scheduling conflicts and child care. In addition, growing numbers of students already on campus are finding online courses can meet specific needs and complement their regular courses.

 



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