Interesting Facts About HACC’s Virtual Campus

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What is a CRN?

Each class offering of any course has its own unique identification number.

This is referred to as the CRN (or Course Reference Number). Typically, the CRN consists of 5 digits for Spring or Fall semesters and 4 digits for summer semesters.

For example, you might register for a fall section of an online Accounting 101 course which has a CRN of 20001.

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HACC began offering online courses in the Spring of 1999. That semester 120 students enrolled in six courses. In the Fall of 2008, just 9 years later, HACC’s Virtual Campus enrolled 4,242 students from 35 PA counties and 11 states. These students could choose from over 120 different online courses!

Interesting Facts About Online Learning in the United States

The Sloan Consortium, in its latest publication Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States 2008 (http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/survey/staying_course) reports
“For the past several years, online enrollments have been growing substantially faster than overall higher education enrollments ..."

Almost 3.9 million students were taking at least one online course during the fall 2007 term; a nearly 12 percent increase over the number reported the previous year.
The 12.9 percent growth rate for online enrollments far exceeds the 1.2 percent growth of the overall higher education student population.
Nearly twenty percent of all U.S. higher education students were taking at least one online course in the fall of 2007.