by News Observer Editorial
It is an astonishing number. At Wake Technical Community College there are 13,505 registrations for virtual classes. Online education, once viewed skeptically in higher education, is clearly the wave of the future, and particularly when that future is uncertain because of a troubled economy. People who have jobs but want better ones can, by enrolling in online classes, keep working and keep up with schoolwork. And the classes are better. More teachers are trained to teach online, the technology is more sophisticated and the demand is driving constant improvement. Wake Tech, responsible for classes taught not just at its home campus but in other locations as well, can say at this point that the online campus is its largest satellite.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/23/637902/the-online-way.html
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