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Friday, December 18, 2009
More students go to online learning to juggle pressures of work, family and college - Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun
Financial, family and scheduling pressures make it hard for many to set work aside to attend face-to-face classes every week. Increasingly, students want to squeeze their pursuit of degrees into rare patches of downtime. For these students, the explosion of online class offerings is a godsend. A recent study by Ambient Insight Research predicted that, over the next five years, the number of U.S. students taking online classes will increase from 12 million to 22 million and that the number of students taking classes exclusively face-to-face will decrease from 15 million to 5 million. At UMUC, enrollment of online U.S. students has increased from 33,401 in 2004 to 47,853 this year.
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