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Article: online degree programs are on the move
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- September 1, 2007
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As the expanding legion of online learners continues its astonishing march through colleges and universities in the United States, the relevant measurements just keep getting more impressive. They include the estimate from research and consulting firm Eduventures that 1.5 million students were receiving 100 percent of their education online at the end of 2006-a figure that has tripled in four years. Some 3.2 million students took at least one course online during a recent sampling by the Sloan Consortium, which is up from 2.3 million the previous year.
It's not hard to understand why. The convenience and flexibility of online learning, and the ubiquitous presence of computers throughout ...