by Devon Haynie, US News
About 5.4 million students, or one in four, took at least one distance education course during the fall of 2012, according to data released earlier this month by the National Center for Education Statistics. The government data was released in June as a series of Web tables looking at online learners by state, region, institution and a number of other factors. The National Center for Education Statistics, which is part of the U.S. Department of Education, collected data from institutions eligible for Title IV financial aid. “This gives us complete data for the first time in over a decade,” says Russell Poulin, interim co-executive director for WCET. “There’s a significant difference as you look around the country,” says Ray Schroeder, associate vice chancellor for online learning at the University of Illinois—Springfield. “The real strength is across the Plains and I’m not too surprised just because of how dispersed the population is.”
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