More students are taking courses online through the Tennessee Board of Regents universities and two-year colleges, said Chancellor Charles Manning in an address to the board today.
“The online degree programs have fundamentally changed how people go about their daily tasks,” he said.
Nearly 17 percent of students at Board of Regents schools, a total of 28,000 students, took online courses in 2007.
The use of online courses has grown 20 percent since 2005, he said.
Several masters programs have been launched online, he said.
As online education grows in the Board of Regents’ system, Dr. Manning asked board members to consider quality control and auditing of online education.
“We need to have that kind of intelligence,” he said.
See tomorrow’s Chattanooga Times Free Press for full coverage.
Joan Garrett has been a staff writer for the Times Free Press since August 2007. Before becoming a general assignment writer for the paper, she wrote about business, higher education and the court systems. She grew up the oldest of five sisters near Birmingham, Ala., and graduated with a master's and bachelor's degrees in journalism from the University of Alabama. Before landing her first full-time job as a reporter at the Times Free Press, she ...
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