Monday November 05, 2007
Report Documenting Growth in Online Learning
The SLOAN Foundation recently released its fifth report on the growth in online learning - Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning
There's a nice summary page at the link above as well as a full report you can download.
A few highlights:
The 9.7 percent growth rate for online enrollments far exceeds the 1.5 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 2006.
A large majority (69 percent) of academic leaders believe that student demand for online learning is still growing.
Faculty acceptance of online instruction remains a key issue. Those institutions most engaged in online do not believe it is a concern for their own campus, but do see it as a barrier to more wide-spread adoption of online education.
Higher costs for online development and delivery are seen as barriers among those who are planning online offerings, but not among those who have online offerings.
Posted by klducket
( Nov 05 2007, 06:29:32 PM EST )
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