University of Kentucky expanding online course offerings - Linda B. Blackford, Herald-Leader

In 2010, the University of Kentucky tried an experiment: professors in the College of Arts and Sciences took 20 summer school classes out of the lecture hall and into cyberspace, trying out the school's first large-scale attempt at online education. This summer, there will be 70 classes with more than 3,000 students already signed up. For Arts and Sciences Dean Mark Kornbluh, online summer school classes are less about entering some brave new world of online education and more about getting more students to graduate in four years. "The main reason to do this is to help students make progress toward degrees," he said. "The whole nation has challenges with continuing in school and graduating on time. This way they can go home, live with families, do a job and take key courses that will help them move along.