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• PDF2Word Online
• Via CLC Online

The PDF-to-Word conversion occurs directly on the site and can be saved to a location of your choosing. You dont need to provide your email address. The Word document will be ready immediately after the conversion is done.

Cool! However, I am sure there are several other interesting FREE PDF-to-Word converters out there.


Indeed there is! Here is one: Convert PDF-to-Word

"I have only found one so far that does a great job (Convert PDF-to-Word), it actually looks almost identical to the PDF file, its an online converter, sadly enough its with the email thing, but I can live with that when I get great results..." - Kim Celinder

Thanks for the suggestion Kim Celinder!

However, what if you are looking for a free PDF-to-Word desktop application instead of an online version, do you have any options?

Yes, try Smartsofts free PDF-to-Word Converter (Thanks Nedelcho!). What do you think?

Do anyone out there have even a better PDF-to-Word converter to suggest? :)

Link to site & full report (PDF, 27 pages, 695K)
"The online enrollment projections have been realized, and there is no evidence that enrollments have reached a plateau. Online enrollments continue to grow at rates faster than for the overall student body, and schools expect the rate of growth to further increase:

• Over 1.9 million students were studying online in the fall of 2003.
• Schools expect the number of online students to grow to over 2.6 million by the fall of 2004.
• Schools expect online enrollment growth to accelerate ? the expected average growth rate for online students for 2004 is 24.8%, up from 19.8% in 2003.

Are students as satisfied with online courses as they are with face-to-face instruction?

• 40.7% of schools offering online courses agree that students are at least as satisfied? with their online courses, 56.2% are neutral and only 3.1% disagree.
• Medium and large schools strongly agree (with less than 3% disagreeing).
• The smallest schools (under 1,500 enrollments) are the least positive, but even they have only 5.4% disagreeing compared to 32.9% agreeing.
• Doctoral/Research, Masters, and Associates schools are very positive, Specialized and Baccalaureate schools only slightly less so."

Read the summary (at least) or the full report . This report is excellent (27 pages), and gives us insight to the e-learning or online education state and progress in U.S. higher education.

• thinking less about delivering instruction and more about producing learning,
• reaching out to students through distance education technologies, and
• promoting a strong sense of community among learners.

Indeed, the concept of blended learning may be a synthesis of these areas as the learning environment becomes more learning-centered, with emphasis on active learning through collaboration and social construction of understanding. Such a concept is moving toward O?Banion?s (1997) vision of a learning college as a place where learning comes first and educational experiences are provided for learners anyway, anyplace, and anytime. Graham B. Spanier, president of The Pennsylvania State University, referred to this convergence of online and traditional instruction as the single-greatest unrecognized trend in higher education today (Young, 2002). "