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According to a new report by the Sloan Consortium, significantly more students are enrolling in online courses, and the perceived quality of online education is also rising. The study, which is in its second year, showed a 19 percent increase in the number of students enrolled in an online course. The authors of the report expect that number to grow by another 24 percent in the next year. Growth rates among private, for-profit institutions outpaces others by a factor of almost two to one. The study also showed increasing confidence in the quality of online education, with more than 40 percent of respondents saying they believe students are at least as satisfied with online courses as with classroom instruction. According to Jeff Seaman, chief information officer for the Sloan Consortium and coauthor of the study, small baccalaureate institutions are the slowest to embrace online learning. Administrators at those institutions, he said, are more likely to support small, on-campus classes for the type of educational experience they provide.The report is here in PDF format.
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Nov 16th, 2004
From the Chronicle of Higer Education …
According to a new report by the Sloan Consortium, significantly more students are enrolling in online courses, and the perceived quality of online education is also rising. The study, which is in its second year, showed a 19 percent increase in the number of students enrolled in an online course. The authors of the report expect that number to grow by another 24 percent in the next year. Growth rates among private, for-profit institutions outpaces others by a factor of almost two to one. The study also showed increasing confidence in the quality of online education, with more than 40 percent of respondents saying they believe students are at least as satisfied with online courses as with classroom instruction. According to Jeff Seaman, chief information officer for the Sloan Consortium and coauthor of the study, small baccalaureate institutions are the slowest to embrace online learning. Administrators at those institutions, he said, are more likely to support small, on-campus classes for the type of educational experience they provide.
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