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Online education is a key component of almost any undergraduate or graduate degree. Its also a very recent phenomenon, and prospective students may have questions about earning online degrees, certificates or diplomas. WorldWideLearn.com has a new feature–WorldWideBlog–that encourages online discussions between students, prospective students, parents and educational experts on the subject of online learning WorldWideLearn.com is the worlds premier online directory of education.

The growth in post-secondary online education is 14 to 21 times faster than the growth of post-secondary education in general, according to the Sloan Consortium, a group committed to quality online education. Eduventures, a Boston firm that studies trends in education, predicts that 10 percent of all college students will be enrolled in an online degree program by 2008.

Whats the value of an online degree? Are there tips for fitting online studies into a busy life? What should prospective students watch out for? At WorldWideBlog, well answer those questions using posts by WorldWideLearn.com staff combined with questions and comments from students, prospective students, parents, and instructors.
And in an act that removed a large obstacle for colleges and universities wanting to pursue online education more aggressively, Congress passed a law in March 2006 eliminating the requirement that at least half of a colleges courses must be face-to-face (rather than online) in order for that college to receive federal aid. This new law meant that colleges could create an unlimited number of online courses.

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