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Thursday, March 04, 2010
Online learning enrollment booming in higher ed - Andy Hyland, LJWorld
In a down economy with many out of work, more and more college students are looking online to complete their degrees. The Babson Survey Research Group looks at national online enrollments. Its most recent report shows that 4.6 million college students were enrolled in at least one online course in fall 2008, the most recent term for which figures are available. That’s a 17 percent increase from a year earlier. Greg Simpson, Kansas University’s interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is a candidate for the permanent position. In a recent public forum he addressed online education at KU as something he’d like to see improved.
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