The face of the college-going student is changing in the United States and in many countries around the world. No longer are the majority of our students fresh from high school and living on campus. There are more students commuting, more students beginning their college careers at two-year community colleges, and more combining work and study in creative part-time/fulltime arrangements in order to upgrade their workplace skills. Colleges and universities now are reaching out both to traditional students and to those who cannot participate in the residential, full-time academic environment; they are experimenting with alternative educational delivery systems: correspondence study, one-way and two-way audio, and video or internet-based asynchronous learning. They are experimenting with the promise of e-learning.
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