A recent report reveals online community schools are now getting the highest enrollment in online education. The news was very impressive since it said that online education is now getting noticed by many people – even in third world countries of the world.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Babson Survey Research Group reported an enrollment of nearly 3.5 million post secondary students in Philadelphia in just one online class alone. Of this, the community colleges have the highest increase of at least 18 percent. The report was made during the annual meeting of the American Association of Community Colleges in Philadelphia. The report also said that schools with two-year course offerings have the highest enrollment online with a record of as high as 1.9 million students. There are also 171,000 students of the country enrolled on baccalaureate degree courses.

Fred Lokken, associate dean of a distance learning institutions at the Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC) said the past enrollments were incredible as students were really welcoming online education as one of the best possible ways to be competitive as the world embraces education of the 21st century. The students according to the survey believed enrolling themselves online was the best option to become more knowledgeable and competitive about modern technology which cannot be found in other third world countries, as well as the trends in modern educational systems in which they want to be updated with.

With this development, the school of the 21st century like online education could be a lot of surprises to educators and school owners. The enrollment, many community colleges in Philadelphia are saying, is one reason to believe that the surge in enrollments can be attributed to the eagerness of many international students to try online education. They certainly believe that with this system they can learn many things about the world as well as many developments of the online course they like to enroll. This same surge of enrollment is also experienced in Massachusetts and other developed countries of the world. The respond of international students is amazing and many online schools do not exactly estimated it would happen that millions of students could actually enroll in just one online class.