Oct
2019
online ed enrollment
Digital Learning Compass: The Distance Education Enrollment Report 2017
In higher education, 29.7% of all students are taking at least one distance course.
The total distance enrollments are composed of 14.3% of students (2,902,756)
taking exclusively distance courses and 15.4% (3,119,349) who are taking a
combination of distance and non-distance courses. The vast majority (4,999,112,
or 83.0%) of distance students are studying at the undergraduate level.
Almost half of the distance education students are concentrated in just five percent of the institutions, while the top 47 institutions, only 1.0% of the total, enroll 23.0% (1,385,307) of all distance students.
The total number of students studying on campus (those not taking any distance course or taking a combination of distance and non-distance courses) dropped by almost one million (931,317) between 2012 and 2015. The largest declines came at for-profit institutions, which saw a 31.4% drop, followed by 2-year public institutions, which saw a 10.4% decrease.
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2019 Online Education Trends Report
https://www.bestcolleges.com/perspectives/annual-trends-in-online-education/
69% of online students identified employment as their primary goal for entering a program. 17% are grad students.
Seventy percent of administrators said they launch new programs with enrollment growth in mind, while meeting marketing and recruitment goals was their top concern.
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2018 Student Guide to Online Education
https://www.bestcolleges.com/perspectives/annual-student-guide-to-online-education/
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2017 Online Education Trends Report
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Inside Higher Ed’s Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/survey-faculty-attitudes-technology
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more on distance education in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=distance+education