College students taking online courses miss professors

By Rick Armon. The study shows how important it is to encourage more communication — albeit over the computer — between instructors and students, especially at a time when so-called distance learning is becoming more popular.
The National Center for Education Statistics estimated that 5.4 million college students, or 25.8 percent, took at least one online course in 2012, the latest year that data were available. More...