by the Express-Times staff
Slightly more than one-quarter of Northampton Community College’s roughly 11,500 students are taking advantage of online courses, according to Jeff Focht, the college’s vice president for academic affairs. While the increase is consistent with a nationwide trend in higher education, at least one trustee would like statistical information that compares results of students in traditional classroom settings against those who take the course online. “I’m not opposed to online learning,” former Bethlehem Area School District Superintendent Thomas Doluisio said during Thursday’s meeting of the college’s board of trustees. “I’m skeptical.”
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