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DL Catching On - Albert Hidel - 01-03-2009 Quote:Two-thirds of all colleges and universities — two-year and four-year — reported offering online or partly online “hybrid” courses during the 2006-7 academic year, according to a new report by the National Center for Education Statistics. Other key findings: Distance education courses accounted for an estimated 12.2 million enrollments (or registrations). And asynchronous technologies were the most widely used technology for the instructional delivery of distance courses.http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/01/02/qt Quote:This report presents findings from "Distance Education at Postsecondary Institutions: 2006-07", a survey that was designed to provide national estimates on distance education at 2-year and 4-year Title IV eligible, degree-granting institutions. Distance education was defined as a formal education process in which the student and instructor are not in the same place. Thus, instruction may be synchronous or asynchronous, and it may involve communication through the use of video, audio, or computer technologies, or by correspondence (which may include both written correspondence and the use of technology such as CD-ROM). The questionnaire instructed institutions to include distance education courses and programs that were formally designated as online, hybrid/blended online, and other distance education courses and programs. Hybrid/blended online courses were defined as a combination of online and in-class instruction with reduced in-class seat time for students.http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2009044 Link to full report as PDF file: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009044.pdf The report includes "Title IV eligible" degree-granting institutions, which means it covers both RA and NA schools. DETC currently lists 60 degree granting schools, so the "two-thirds" of schools offering DL obviously means less than 2/3 of RA schools. Still, it looks like DL is continuing to make major inroads at the traditional schools. Is there a "tipping point" in sight, where demand for DL courses will force the B&M schools to offer more DL than butt-in-seat courses? Do current economic conditions make the factors cited (meeting student demand for flexible schedules, providing access to college for students who would otherwise not have access, making more courses available, and seeking to increase student enrollment) more or less likely to increase demand for DL courses at traditional schools? RE: DL Catching On - ham - 01-04-2009 Quote:Is there a "tipping point" in sight, where demand for DL courses will force the B&M schools to offer more DL than butt-in-seat courses? DE will expand further, but I guess the B&M clique and its cronies & patrons will do all they can to boost and "accredit" the stigma associated with DE...they don't want to loose their billionaire contracts, real estate deals & so forth. |