By Daniel de Vise, Washington Post
A new report on online education concludes that 29 percent of college students took at least one course online in fall 2009, up from 10 percent in 2002. Online enrollment has risen from 1.6 million in 2002 to 3.2 million in 2005 to 5.6 million in 2009, according to the report Class Differences: Online Education in the United States, 2010. The share of college students studying online has grown almost as fast as the number. Online enrollment rose by 21 percent between 2008 and 2009, compared with a 1 percent increase in the overall college population. Nearly two-thirds of the 2,500 colleges surveyed reported that online learning is a “critical” part of their long-term strategy. The stigma associated with online learning and “Pajama U” seems to be fading.
http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/class_differences
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/college-inc/2010/11/survey_nearly_13_of_students_s.html
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