Rutgers University - 100 Percent Online Degrees. Interesting...esp for Business Admin

[Christopher]

Right. I just know back in the 1990s saying "online college" would be the same as saying "high school at home". We would say "not a real education, probably a fast track diploma mill." Not that they were, but the mental image was you go to college at one of the ground campuses like CSUN, UCLA, CAL-Luthern and so on. Or go to community college or out of state. It wasnt "Ill move on to online college now." But, now, it's very well accepted. A lot of colleges/universities are going that way. What I like now is that colleges especially online are moving to focus on adults. It was always the view colleges are/were for teens and twenty-somethings. When I started CC at 18/19 years old, we would see an older adult in class. Maybe in her 40s or 50s and honestly we would say "wow, she must be a divorcee having to go back to school to survive" or something like that. How rare it was too see older adults past 30 years old in the class rooms. Now it's all different.

Now with COSC, EXC, and TESC and some others, they mindset is college is also for adults, working adults, and doesnt have to be traditional. Why I'm going for online. I can't take mid-day classes at the University as I work. The 1PM-2PM M, W, F, courses that I took out of H.S. at CC where I was at school from 9AM-3PM four days a week. Nor do I want to at his point in my life unless I have to at the CC via night courses/online. At least CC offers some night courses and ours is going online more and more.

Distance learning is not new, not even in the last 10 years. Many States which supported rural communities had correspondence studies and extension schools. It wasn't until the proliferation of the world wide wide and the advances in internet technology that these schools transferred their correspondence programs into the online realm. UWYo and OU have been doing this for years.

You are correct though that online education is gaining steam.