Ohio’s Online College Growth
July 25th, 2006The Akron Beacon Journal has some figures on the colleges and universities in Ohio and the increasing popularity of distance learning. The article, entitled ‘Distance learning attracting full-time students‘, goes through some stats about who’s using these modern class methods.
Of the 37,000 students taking distance-learning courses in the state, more than half are full-time students.
..and, a majority are community college students, with fewer than one-third attending main university campuses, according to the Ohio Learning Network of 72 colleges and universities.
An increasing trend is to attend a local school, and take distance learning courses at other schools and then have them transferred over. This clearly shows a demand for more online classes, and many schools are adding to their list of internet classes.
Wright State, where 1,500 students have enrolled in Internet courses, offers five online degree programs and 17 general education courses. The school plans to expand general education courses and create three additional undergraduate degrees and eight additional online graduate degrees.
