Popularity Of Online Classes Continues To Rise
Nov 30th, 2006
3.1 million students can't be wrong. This is the number of students in America alone who enrolled in online courses and degree programs last year, up a whopping 35% from the previous year. Enrollment in 'traditional' classes has not experienced growth anywhere near these numbers.
It's not pure bliss in online academia, though:
At the same time, fewer of the administrators at both public and private colleges said their faculty "accept the value and legitimacy of online education," raising a critical obstacle for a method of making college more affordable and more accessible to nontraditional students, the report said.
College administrators "see significant barriers to widespread adoption, and those barriers tend to be things like, 'My faculty doesn't believe in it,' " said Jeff Seaman, a co-author of the report. "That's going to be the tension in the coming years."
Have you encountered resistance to your Academic degree? While these opinions may be valid, it seems logical that as online degree programs continue to grow in popularity, and in a diverse array of arenas (even the Ivy League is getting in on the online action), acceptance will grow.
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