Idaho State University celebrated the remarkable graduating class from its Associate Degree Registered Nurse Program. What made this class unusual? It was the first to complete the program online.

The Idaho State Journal reports:

The program director Linda Smith said many of her graduates wouldn't have been able do so without this innovative distance learning program.

Holding her 3-year-old daughter Emily in her hands, Mindy Allen said she's been working as an LPN for four years at Oneida County Hospital but wanted to become an RN, and this program was the only way she could.
' ' What attracted me to this program was the ability to get on the Internet to do the coursework and that I could do the clinicals locally,'' she said. ' ' I wasn't able to get into a traditional nursing program and this allowed me to do that.''With ' hands-on' disciplines like nursing now offered online, there seems to be no limitations for the future of higher education technology.