Classroom of the Future Is Virtually Anywhere

Welcome to the brave burgeoning world of online education. It’s a world most of us, whether we like it or not, will have to grapple with, as students, tuition-paying parents or employees. Nearly 3.5 million college or graduate students, one of every five, took at least one online course last fall, double the figures of five years earlier, according to a survey of 2,500 campuses published last week in a collaboration among the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the College Board and a Babson College research group.

By JOSEPH BERGER

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/education/31education.html?_r=1&oref=slogin