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So Steele, a full-time senior business major, has been taking as many classes as he

can from the South Dakota State system’s online offerings. He gets better grades and

learns more, he says, and insists he isn’t missing out on the college experience.

“I still know a lot of people from my first two years living on campus, and I still

meet a lot of people,” he says. But now, he sets his own schedule.

At least 2.3 million people took some kind of online courses, according to a

recent survey by The Sloan Consortium, an online education group, and two-thirds of

colleges offering “face-to-face” courses also offer online ones. But what were once

two different types of classes are looking more and more alike and often falling into

the same pool of students.

At some schools, online courses originally intended for non-traditional students

living far from campus have proved surprisingly popular with on-campus students. A

recent study found 42 percent of the students enrolled(登记) in its distance

education courses were located on campus at the university that was hosting the

online courses.

Numbers vary depending on the policies of particular colleges, but other schools

also have students mixing and matching online and “face-to-face” credits. Motives

range from lifestyle to adapting a job schedule to getting into high-demand courses.

Washington State had about 325 on-campus undergraduates taking one or more

distance courses last year. As many as 9,000 students took both distance and

in-person classes at Arizona State last year.

“Business is really about providing choices to their customers, and that’s really

what we want to do,” said Sheila Aaker, extended services coordinator (协调人) at

Black Hills State.

Many schools, such as Washington State and Arizona State, let departments and

academic units decide who can take an online course. They say students with

legitimate academic needs---a conflict with another class, a course they need to

graduate that is full---often get permission, though they still must take some key

classes in person.

46. What is the purpose of the passage?

A. To introduce Steele to us, who prefers online courses.

B. To tell us about the development of campus courses.

C. To show the differences between campus courses and online courses.

D. To show more on-campus students are taking online courses.

47. We can learn from the passage that Andy Steele _______.

A. lives far from the campus

B. knows none of his classmates

C. wants to have his own lifestyle

D. doesn’t get good marks

48. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The undergraduates attend the online courses for different purposes.

B. It is expected that distance education is popular with on-campus students.