Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Thursday, October 31, 2002

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/4402527.htm

Degree seekers turn to cyberspace
Jan Jarvis, Star-Telegram Staff Writer

Kimberly Frazier has never set foot on the University of Texas at Arlington campus, but the Atlanta mother is a semester away from earning a master's degree in education from the college. "I am actually getting my whole degree online because not a single college in Georgia holds a master's course during the day while my boys are in school," said Frazier, who is enrolled in four courses this semester. "Online learning is the wave of the future, not just a trend." Across the country, more students are logging out of campus life and clicking into college classrooms in cyberspace. Five years ago, fewer than 100 students were enrolled in UT-Arlington's online courses; this year, enrollment is 2,000, said Pete Smith, the university's distance education director....

 



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