by Dave Breitenstein, News-Press
During the fall semester, 1,645 of 4,227 students living on campus – 39 percent – took at least one online class. In the fall, 4,287 of 9,281 students living off campus – 46 percent – enrolled in at least one virtual course. Why pay to live in a college dorm and then sign up for online courses? That’s what’s happening at Florida Gulf Coast University, where 39 percent of students living on campus took at least one online course during the fall term. Although many students can see academic buildings out their dorm room window, they forgo the short walk or shuttle bus ride in favor of a computer. It’s not that they’re lazy, according to provost Ron Toll. “Students like online classes because they’re much more flexible,” Toll said. “They can be interacting with people at 3 o’clock in the morning.”
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