18% Increase In Distance Education

No that is not at Rio. I got that number from an article Inside Higher ED
I am copying and pasting the parts that caught my eyes.

Community colleges reported an 18 percent increase in distance education enrollments in a 2007 survey released this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Association of Community Colleges...
Last year’s survey (2006) found community colleges reporting an increase in distance education enrollments of 15 percent.

And finally, the following made me cry!

This year’s survey suggests that distance education has probably not peaked at community colleges.