s online. Distance learning has been recently growing in popularity. At least 2.3 million people took online courses in 2004, according to a survey by The Sloan Consortium, an online education group. (Ibid.)
             A remote learning system will benefit student athletes throughout the country, if the VBrick System is adopted, although student athletes are apparently already doing well. Major-college football graduates players at a rate of 66 percent and African-American players at a rate of 56 percent. Division I men's basketball also witnessed a slight increase to 46 percent overall and 42 percent among African-Americans. Division I is graduating 77 percent of its athletes. The NCAA figures are slightly adjusted for players transferring into and out of a program and those who enter mid-year (often termed "grayshirts"), something federal-education standards refuse to quantify, thus often indicating lower graduation rates. A study showing this was done with student-athletes enrolling in 1999-2000 and given the standard six years to graduate. (Finder 3)
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