The 2009 Sloan Survey of Online Learning reports that enrollment of students in online courses rose by nearly 17 percent from the previous year. That means that one in four college students are taking at least one online course. Here are top 5 myths about online degree programs:

Online credits won’t transfer
Each school will have its [...]

The Online Education Database and National Center for Education Statistics reported the top accredited online colleges of 2009. The schools were ranked on eight different metrics such as acceptance rate, graduation rate, financial aid, peer Web citations, retention rate, years accredited, scholarly citations, and student-faculty ratio.

Top Online Colleges of 2009

Nova Southeastern University
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Peer 2 Peer University announced a second round of free and open online courses last week. They offer 14 online classes ranging from physics to transformational art. P2PU is run by the P2P2U council, a group of community members who volunteer to design and run specific courses. The community is made up of writers, teachers, [...]

A common assumption is that the higher degree you have, the better job and salary you can get. A case study done by Dēmos, a public policy research organization, shows that this is not necessarily the case when looking at certificate, associates and bachelor’s degrees.

Certificate programs and associates degrees are a large and growing segment [...]

At the start of the 2008 to 2009 school year, more than 4.6 million college students were taking at least one online course according to U.S.News. That’s a 17 percent increase from 2007, or more than 1 in 4 college students!

Most of the growth for online education is coming from existing traditional schools that are [...]