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Virtual High School Corsortium Founded to bring together 770 member schools from 34 states for Grades 6-12, 15,247 Course Enrollment
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Florital Virtual School Begins Course Offerins - It is the oldest and largest virtual school
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21.5% more students in higher education are taking online classes than in fall of 2002. This amoutn represents 20% of all US Higher Education Students
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57% of Academic Leaders rated learing outcomes as same or superior to face to face classes
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47% increase from 2005-2006
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Economic Crunch of Colleges leads them to realize that more online classes increases revenue because of much larger pool of students
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This is an increase of 560,000 over 2009. 31% of all Higher Education Studetns are taking at least one online class
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38 states have virtual schools or state led online initiatives. 27 states pluse DC have full time online schools. 20 states are providing supplemental or fulltime online learning
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Adjuncts/Part Time Faculty make of 47% of all factulty in US Public Colleges. They make us 71% in community colleges
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87% of students use laptors and other electronic devices
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Online and Blended Learning exisits for some students in all 50 states plus DC. No state has full time opitions at all grade levels
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EdX and Coursera are partnerships set up by top universities to offer free online classes
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Competition between Learning Management Service Providers lead to development of more LMS products
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