- Posted by John on February 5, 2008
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently published an article
on the explosive growth of students taking online courses. 75% more students are taking online courses
today than 4 years ago, according to the article.
The advantage of possessing a flexible schedule is cited as
the most significant reason for the increase.
The trend is Washington
is similar to the nationwide trend. In
fact, the article reports that 3.5 million college students took at least one
online college course in the fall of 2006.
This is definitely exciting news to us. An interesting note about this trend is that
not only do students seem to be interested in online courses, but colleges seem
to be offering them to match this need.
Read the full article here: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/348198_online22.html?source=mypi