by B.A. Morelli, Iowa City Press-Citizen
At UI, on-campus students make up more than 50 percent of the enrollment in online classes, according to records from UI Division of Continuing Education. The number of on-campus students enrolled in single-semester online classes increased by 55 percent from 947 in 2009 to 1,465 in 2010, and the number of these courses increased 33 percent from 138 in 2008 to 183 in 2010, according to the division. UI sees these single-semester online courses as a place to grow, said Chet Rzonca, dean of continuing education. Students in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which with 16,000 undergraduates is UI’s largest college, take one to two online classes during college, and about 10 percent
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