But the focus of our online World Campus, where courses have completion rates of 90% or better, will remain on helping traditional campus-based students to complete degree programs.
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Increasingly, the grassy American campus will give way to no campus (online learning) or a program abroad.
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Some institutions will focus on improving prep courses for students coming into the system, others on matriculated students both online and on-campus, and still others will be developing their own MOOCs to teach students at other institutions in their states.
Luckily, Her Campus, an online magazine for college women, is looking on the bright side.
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But he argued that the scale of demand would need to be met by online courses as well as campus universities.
Online listings, job fairs, campus recruiting and print ads all decrease.
At Creighton, the curriculum online is exactly the same as on campus.
In a world where even many on-campus students are already taking online courses, often from other institutions and transferring them, Thursday's announcements further blur the distinctions not just within universities but between them.
She said she hoped the university could learn from the online experiment and implement parts of it on campus.
At present, such online courses might be as difficult as their campus-based versions, but most of them are not formally recognised as counting as course credits.
The classes will include face-to-face on-campus time, email communications, and online social networking.
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The results of the survey in 2011 revealed that nearly two-thirds of those familiar with online education believe that a degree earned online is a credible as one earned through a traditional campus-based program.
The typical age is 31 for telecommuters and 22 on campus, says Tom Lenz, the director of Creighton's online doctor of pharmacy program.
They will be asking, what is the value added by our campus when demand can be aggregated either by bringing students to campus or, much less expensively, by reaching and teaching students online virtually anywhere in the world?
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That getting a degree online will become on par with, if not preferred to, an on-campus education.
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For each of the 30, 000 students on campus, another 10 are virtual students taking part in the free Massive Open Online Courses called MOOCs.
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"These are opportunities your everyday startup doesn't get, " says Robert Falcone, 24, cofounder of Campus Sponsorship, which allows students to raise money from big companies by completing online puzzles or watching videos sponsored by those companies.
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