Students Embrace Online Learning
The Quality and Extent of Online Education in the United States, 2003 and 2004,†by the Sloan Center for Online Education, more than 1.9 million students were studying online in the fall of 2003, a 19.8 percent increase over fall 2002. The study was based on a survey of 1,100 U.S. colleges and universities. The Sloan study predicts a 25 percent increase — or 2.6 million — for fall 2004.
