A high school senior could then attend college with credits in hand, which would help the student start faster and perhaps save money overall. If technology is the touchstone for change, online graduate Buselli would seem to be Long Island's poster boy for online matriculation. He's far from alone now, but it was different when he first began looking for ways to get a college degree online in the late 1980s. I could not stop what I was doing and become a traditional college student. Without online, I could not have gotten a degree.
Classes take place in office buildings or wherever classroom space can be rented.
From what we see, the growth of this new kind of electronic college student would seem to be limitless, said Brian Mueller, a University of Phoenix spokesman. Our strategic planning is built around the notion put forward by Isaac Asimov that everything we know today will be only 3 percent of the knowledge base in 50 years, he said. Expertise can't reside on a single campus or in a single library. Without the arrangement, there wouldn't be enough demand on a single campus to hold the class. Everyone can see and hear me, Hogsette said.