Online Nation
Five Years of Growth in Online Learning - Western Edition
Sloan-C Releases Western US Survey - Online Education Continues Rapid Growth in the West
Available now as a free download from this page: Sloan-C releases an executive summary of the upcoming Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning, Western Edition. Involving 6 years of longitudinal data from over 400 institutions in 14 western states, this report builds off the Sloan-C series of survey reports that has become the industry standard for information and data concerning the growth of online and the future direction of online higher education. The full report will be released May 7 at the Sloan-C International Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning in Carefree, AZ.
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In for the Long Term?
The proportion of academic leaders reporting online as part of their long-term strategy continued its small but steady increase. For online education to continue its rapid growth, the chief academic officers who are planning tomorrow’s educational offerings must perceive it as important. For the fifth year, chief academic officers were asked to rate their level of agreement with the statement that online education is critical to the long-term strategy of their school. The response trend shows a slow but continual increase in the proportion of chief academic officers who agree with this statement.
Online Offerings
More than two-thirds of all higher education institutions now have some form of online offerings, with the majority of these providing programs that are fully online. The distribution of institutions offering online programs and courses or only courses has not changed significantly over the past year. The percentage of institutions offering fully online programs in the fourteen western states was 39 percent for fall 2006, those offering online courses but no online programs was 29 percent, and those with no online offerings 31 percent.
Size Matters
The largest institutions teach the greatest number of online students, as they have consistently for each survey year. This is due not only to their size, but also because they were early adopters of online education and have continued to expand over a longer period. When online enrollments are examined by student type and institutional size, it is clear that undergraduate students at large institutions are by far the most numerous. Each of the largest institutions teaches, on average, considerably more online students than institutions of any other size.
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The final report will be released at the Sloan-C International Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning, May 7-9, 2008.
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