By AMBER SOUTH, Public Opinion Online
It is an age when the importance of higher education grows every day, yet more classes are moving out of the classroom and onto the World Wide Web. Known as distance education, this modern way of learning gives traditional students with other responsibilities more options for arranging a schedule. It gives working adults the ability to go back to school, often without entering a classroom. With its ability to reach more people than a traditional classroom, distance education is positioned to aid in the projection that by 2018, 65 percent of jobs will require some type of college education. “While distance education is not likely to replace traditional face-to-face programs and ‘bricks and mortar’ institutions, it is not possible for the U.S. to meet these goals and needs exclusively through traditional face-to-face means of higher education,” Lyman and Sax wrote.
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