By Matthew Stolle, The Post-Bulletin
In the last several years, a new kind of campus has emerged at Rochester Community and Technical College. It is one in which message boards, drop boxes and online conversations via Skype have replaced the the face-to-face interactions of the traditional classroom. Nearly 25 percent of classes taught at RCTC are now completely online, and when hybrid courses are tossed into the mix, the number rises to one-third. And those numbers rocket even higher in the summer. Last year, 42 percent of courses taught were of the online variety as university students returned home and decided to work off a requirement by taking an online course. The result: There is now a growing number of RCTC students who never set foot on campus.
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