Online education is regarded as a cost effective way to both deliver course material to students and obtain a degree in a student’s position. The author of the article “Putting Online Classes to Test”, Carla Rivera, highlights the monetary benefits online learning offers to schools. In Rivera’s article she includes the commentary of Stanford University’s education professor Eric Bettinger. He states, “If we can cut costs for [online] programs, we might be in the position of offering something… that would save money [for students]” (qtd. in Rivera 1). Online education does, indeed, cut costs for students, but it is not to be confused with reduced tuition as compared to on-campus education. The tuition rate of both online and on-campus education
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More students are impacted by the positive effects of online classes rather than the negative. This is apparent by the rapid increase in online enrollment by students on many age levels. Statistics from an article highlighting online learning reports that “According to the 2010 Sloan Survey of Online Learning, approximately 5.6 million students took at least one web-based class during the fall 2009 semester, which marked a 21% growth from the previous year” (Orgill 1). According to another survey, the number of students enrolled in online college classes rose from 2.1 million students in 2009 to 6.7 million in 2011 (“Online Education” 2). The use of online learning is rapidly growing. This recent positive feedback has led administrators to continue following the path of online learning. An article titled “Online Classes Can Increase Learning” states that “The number of online providers that utilize Internet technology to deliver effective, non-traditional learning approaches to students is growing, and several states are moving ahead with legislation that will offer online curricula as a practical alternative to the traditional classroom” (3). This implies that future statistical data representing the use of online education will, again, show rapid increase. Despite the minor technicalities of the quickly emerging trend in online education, students and administrators continue to move forward in seeking the benefits it has to
More students are impacted by the positive effects of online classes rather than the negative. This is apparent by the rapid increase in online enrollment by students on many age levels. Statistics from an article highlighting online learning reports that “According to the 2010 Sloan Survey of Online Learning, approximately 5.6 million students took at least one web-based class during the fall 2009 semester, which marked a 21% growth from the previous year” (Orgill 1). According to another survey, the number of students enrolled in online college classes rose from 2.1 million students in 2009 to 6.7 million in 2011 (“Online Education” 2). The use of online learning is rapidly growing. This recent positive feedback has led administrators to continue following the path of online learning. An article titled “Online Classes Can Increase Learning” states that “The number of online providers that utilize Internet technology to deliver effective, non-traditional learning approaches to students is growing, and several states are moving ahead with legislation that will offer online curricula as a practical alternative to the traditional classroom” (3). This implies that future statistical data representing the use of online education will, again, show rapid increase. Despite the minor technicalities of the quickly emerging trend in online education, students and administrators continue to move forward in seeking the benefits it has to