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Newsweek - Online Schools Grow |
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 August 7, 2009 Online schools are booming, thanks to their convenience, low cost, and improved quality. The Sound of One Hand Clicking: In this article on the surge in online student enrollments, Newsweek profiles online college students in search of the reasons why online learning is becoming so popular. Convenience and cost are two leading reasons cited by students themselves. One student interviewed lives near a bricks-and-mortar school but prefers the convenience and low cost of an online degree program instead ... Vicky Phillips, GetEducated.com founder, reveals several reasons why the future of education is online in this special report from Newsweek: "This is a generation that lives online," says Vicky Phillips, founder and CEO of Geteducated.com, a service that ranks online learning institutions. "Everything is instant, accelerated, and accessible, and they expect their education to be that way too. For them there is no clear line between the virtual world and the actual world."Read more about GetEducated.com and Vicky Phillips in Newsweek Magazine |