EXCELSIOR COLLEGE: 27,000 STUDENTS AND GROWING
As part of our ongoing coverage of successful
higher-education distance-learning providers, this month's
issue of Educational Pathways takes a look inside Excelsior
College.
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HEADCOUNTS SHOW EXCELSIOR COLLEGE AT THE FOREFRONT OF
NURSING EDUCATION
It’s easy to see where Excelsior’s enrollment growth is
happening. Undergraduate nursing students accounted for
about 70 percent of all Excelsior students in 2003, and the
growth has been dramatic over the past three years.
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ELECTRONIC PEER NETWORK ALLOWS STUDENTS TO INTERACT
ACADEMICALLY AND SOCIALLY
An important facet of the Excelsior College experience is
its Electronic Peer Network (EPN), which "provides the
opportunity for enrolled students and alumni to interact
academically and socially online."
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PERSPECTIVES, PAST AND PRESENT: DRAWING FROM PAST ISSUES OF
EDPATH AND REFLECTING ON TODAY
With the beginning of the third year of writing, editing and
publishing Educational Pathways (EdPath), I found it
beneficial to take a look back at some of the topics covered
over the past two years. Seven personal perspectives came
out of this informal study. In total, they reveal a
relatively large, but by no means all-encompassing, state of
affairs relative to distance education.
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