Associate online degree programs | Indiana reports a rise in online enrollment

Posted by bposton on November 29th, 2006 — Posted in associate online degree programs

Indiana is reporting a rise in online enrollments at the colleges and universities in the state.

First we’ll take Perdue.

Dennis McElhoe, Purdue’s director of continuing education and conferencing, said Purdue began offering online courses in the 1999-00 academic school year with two enrolled students. Now, more than 4,700 students are enrolled in the courses.

Next, there’s Indiana U.

Indiana University had 40 graduate-level online courses in the school of education during the 2005-06 academic school year, the coordinator of student and course support reported. The number of students enrolled were not counted.

The university had 83 undergradate online courses and 44 high school online courses as well.

Last year, 1,917 Indiana undergraduates were enrolled in the courses, compared to 1,734 the previous academic school year.

So, even more evidence that online education is surging.

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engineering degree online : A Professor comments on distance learning

Posted by bposton on October 24th, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

Here’s an interesting quote from George Gollin, a physics professor at the University of Illinois.

Gollin has studied distance learning, and he says that many online programs are reputable and are a good way for some people to get a degree.

Here’s what he had to say:

“I think it can be a very good way for someone who’s been out of school for a while, has a family, has a job and can’t put down their obligations to increase their education.

For many classes, there’s no reason they couldn’t be taught online, though there are some areas of study that would be difficult to teach from a distance. It’s hard to imagine where you can teach someone to be a modern dancer via distance learning. Physics also may be difficult to arrange, especially with complicated lab work.”

But Gollin said he wouldn’t rule out those types of classes completely.

“I think there are ways to get around some of the things you might think are too hard,” he said.

So here’s a college professor who beleives as I do that getting an online degree is becoming easier and easier. Maybe even to the point of calling it “mainstream”?

OK, not yet, but maybe soon…

Ben

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