November 15, 2005

By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti

A common concern when starting a distance education program is that the online course offerings will merely cannibalize students from existing traditional courses, dividing a fixed pool of students between the two delivery methods. However, recent research by Joseph Cavanaugh, associate professor of economics at Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio), indicates that online students earn better grades, and that attracting more distance education students can improve the overall academic quality of a student body.

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