February 4, 2005

Offering Entire Degrees Online Is One Key to Distance Education, Survey Finds

By DAN CARNEVALE

The distance-education programs that offer entire degrees online are more successful than those that offer only a scattering of courses, a new survey has found.

The report, titled "Achieving Success in Internet-Supported Learning in Higher Education," was written by Rob Abel, president of a nonprofit organization called the Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness. The report was set to be released this week.

Mr. Abel says the organization wanted to find out what made a

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