A growing number of state colleges are offering online courses to their students. Some are even allowing students to concurrently enroll in distance learning classes offered by other state colleges.

Consider this agreement by three Arizona state colleges, as recently reported by The Arizona Republic:

"Arizona college students can be Sun Devils, Wildcats and Lumberjacks at the same time.

A small but growing number of students are taking courses at all three state universities through a program that gives them more flexibility and access to classes.

Students can choose the university that grants their degree and never attend a class there in person. As part of the Arizona Universities Network, or AZUN, they typically go to class at one university and take online courses at the other two."

Although such concurrent enrollment agreements may lessen the school's ability to control what students are learning, the agreements do give students greater freedom to take the classes they want to take at the time that is most convenient.