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Online Students Favor Course Guides Who Look Like Them

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High drop-out rates plague online courses. As a result, researchers are constantly looking for ways to make online education more personal and engaging. Online training companies are experimenting with "virtual agents." These agents appear as online helper images on course screens. Sometimes called mentors, these agents offer encouragement and feedback as students move through online courses. Computerized mentors essentially serve as motivational agents. They emulate old school teachers whose words of encouragement have reliably helped struggling students persist and achieve in the classroom environment for centuries.
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75% of College Presidents at Public Universities Cite Online Learning as #1 Solution to Budget Crisis

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What's keeping college presidents awake at night? The same thing that's bothering most Americans apparently—money, or the lack thereof. Inside Higher Education, an online news agency, surveyed 956 head college honchos ranging from CEOs to Presidents in an effort to take the pulse of a higher education system under assault on issues of affordability and accountability. Online learning came up as the best method to cut university cost.
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Study Suggests Online Adjunct Faculty Feel Isolated, Unheard

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Increasingly, online degree programs are using adjunct faculty to teach core and elective courses. But how do adjuncts themselves feel about teaching online? Pay is often low—too low perhaps? And professional training and advancement opportunities are often non-existent.
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76-year-old Non-Traditional College Student Earning Online Masters

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Bernard "Bernie" Clarfield is 76 years old, and he's a college student. Yes, you read that right. A 76-year-old college kid. According to the U.S. Department of Education, more than 70% of today's college kids are not "kids" at all, but students over the age of 24. Non-traditional and older students have long turned to online learning to solve access issues and to juggle their work and career. Even so, Clarfield is a rarity. He is an excellent example of that old adage, "It is never too late to learn." Also, in Clarfield's case, it is never too late to learn how to master new educational technologies. The senior citizen is majoring in distance learning technologies.
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Survey of Community College Students Reveal 61% Have Taken Online Courses

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The Pearson Foundation undertook a survey of 1,434 community college students ages 18-59 between September 27 and November 4, 2010. The foundation hoped to identify the factors that are both blocking student success and contributing to their success at the community college level. Survey Results: 61% of students reported taking online courses Students who are highest risk for dropping out – those working full-time, older, married, and/or with children – were the most likely to turn to online courses as a way to balance time constraints
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