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Saturday, July 27, 2013
Students Seeking Online Degrees Now More Like Traditional On Campus Students, New Study Reports - Jeanne Grunert, Business Administration Information
Today, younger students are embracing an online learning model and foregoing a traditional college experience altogether. The study’s authors note that the 2014 data collection is needed to verify their hypothesis that more and more online learners resemble traditional college campus students. Distance learning has undergone a dramatic transformation from the days of correspondence classes to today’s MOOCs (massive open online courses). Students today are faced with myriad choices ranging from pursuing their entire postsecondary degree in a traditional, in-person campus setting to an entirely online program in which they never set foot on the actual college campus.
http://www.businessadministrationinformation.com/news/students-seeking-online-degrees-now-more-like-traditional-on-campus-students-new-study-reports