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__**Trend Name:**__ Students shop for courses online that meet their schedule and circumstances.

More and more students need to accommodate their school schedule due to their responsibility of maintaining a full time job or based on family financial need. Therefore, students are becoming consumers and shopping around on where to take classes. This allows students to learn at their own pace and then transfer their credits to the institution they plan on graduating from. Students have the choice of going to a two- year community college and then transferring to a four year college, taking online classes that will provide credits through the school, and there might even be a possibility of attaining credit through computer software. It is said that most of the students of todays world gather and transfer credits from more than one institution before graduating.
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 * __Key Manifestations:__** There is an expectation of a 33% growth rate in distance education over the next several years. Also, as of 1999, 77% or more of students in college have taken classes from various sources.

__**Key Personnel:**__ There are online schools such as University of Phoenix, also most schools offer online classes.Students’ demand is being supported and answered. In 1998, 83% of governors identified “allowing students to obtain education anytime and anyplace via technology” as a critical characteristic of universities in the twenty-first century.

__**Why/How a trend?**__ This is a trend because this is a new direction that institutions have offered for students to take their needed courses. It is becoming more and more popular and it doesn't seem like it's going to go away anytime soon with school's prices going through the roof, specially when it comes to buying books and paying for tuition.

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