Internet-based classes common place on many campuses.

Today's post comes from the Miami Herald.Not so long ago, a student like Erin Dowd never could have attended college full-time. Dowd, a junior studying international business at Florida International University (a Gatlin Education Services partner school), works 40 hours a week while taking a full course load -- about half traditional courses and half online. ''I wouldn't be able to work full-time if I couldn't take some of my classes online,'' Dowd said. Internet-based learning has gone from cutting edge at the turn of the 21st century to commonplace on many campuses. ''Learning by Degrees,'' a 2005 report funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, reported that 65 percent of graduate schools and 63 percent of undergraduate institutions offer online as well as face-to-face courses. To read the rest of this article click here.