by Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal
Mirroring a national trend, online courses are exploding in popularity across Kentucky, grabbing an expanding share of students’ college educations, according to a recent Council on Postsecondary Education report. Roughly one in three students now take at least one online course each year, the report found, and nearly one in 10 take all their courses online. In all, online credit hours in Kentucky jumped from 222,916 in 2005 to 792,081 in 2010, with community colleges accounting for much of that growth. Online courses now comprise 26 percent of all community and technical credit hours taken, up from 10 percent in 2005. But they’re also a growing presence at four-year universities. Since 2005, the share of Kentucky universities’ online credit hours has nearly tripled, to 17 percent last year.
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