Distance Education Student Characteristics (:51)

Swain: In the past, we had some pretty refining characteristics of distance education students. For instance, many times they were female. But if you look at the history of time that took place, it was, for instance, when you had television courses. And those were typically stay-at-home women. Nowadays with online education, we don't really have that many "normal" or standard characteristics. We do have some things that we typically know. One, those who take distance education courses, especially those in an online environment, have decided to be there, whether it's a requirement of their job, whether they want professional development or recertification issues, they are there for a purpose.