Public Universities Leading the Way in Online Learning

The common perception of online education is that it is dominated by private, for-profit institutions like those you see advertised on late-night cable TV and on the Internet. As eLearning has gone mainstream and grown, however, that perception is changing. Today, nearly all public institutions offer online programs, as do about half of private, non-profit schools, according to the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), an association of institutions and organizations aimed at providing quality online education.