Online classes prosper as gas prices rise

The price of gas has given teenagers one more reason to ditch college. The high costs in tuition and the transit to and fro to the university from the dorm has made online courses much more appealing. Given how spoiled we have become by cheap gasoline, many of those students have never had to consider alternative ways of getting to class. What’s more, now that they are looking for alternatives, often times they are lacking entirely or highly inefficient, since mass transit, bike lanes and cities designed on a human scale don’t just sprout overnight. Colleges around the US have reported a 50% increase in online student enrollment. This however is not good news for the students who live in areas where the internet access is spotty and sometimes non-existent.

Above all not all courses offered by a University are available online which makes student choices limited. The best option so far is the “hybrid model” wherein a course has an online component as well as a classroom component, thereby reducing the need to drive to school without eliminating the classroom experience.
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