by Julia Furlan, Tribune Newspapers
Learning online might be a way of attending class in your pajamas. But for students like Maria Treto-French, it means listening to a lecture while watching your daughter’s volleyball game. “The hardest part was making sure I had Internet access,” Treto-French said with a laugh about juggling working full time, earning her graduate degree at Northern Illinois University and hustling between after-school activities of her three children. Treto-French is part of a growing number of students — 7.1million, according to a January study by the Babson Survey Research Group — who snap open their devices and log on to learn. Babson also reported that about 34 percent, an all-time high, of higher education students take at least one course online.
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