Distance Education Advising Commission News and Updates
To: Distance Education Advising Interest Group Members
From: Bobbi Thomas, Chair
Dear
Colleagues:
Washington
State University participated in this survey, and just received
the report noted below. I wanted to share this report with the Distance
Education Advising Interest Group members.
Bobbi
Thomas
Assistant Director, Client Services
Senior Academic Advisor
Washington State University
(509) 335-9271, fax (509) 335-7579
thomasb@wsu.edu
Dear
Educator,
We
would like to thank you for your participation in our third comprehensive
survey about the role of online learning in higher education. As
promised, we are notifying you that the survey report has been released.
Based on responses from over 1,000 colleges and universities, "Growing
by Degrees: Online Education in the United States, 2005" shows
that schools are offering a large number of online courses, and
there is great diversity in the courses and programs being offered.
Some
of the key findings:
- Over 2.3 million students were studying
online in the fall of 2004.
- Staffing for online courses does not
come at the expense of core faculty. Institutions use about the
same mixture of core and adjunct faculty to staff their online
courses as they do for their face-to-face courses.
- There is a strong trend upwards in
considering online education as part of a school’s long-term
strategy.
- Chief Academic Officers believe it
is no harder to evaluate online courses than those delivered face-to-face.
- A large majority of respondents (64%)
believe that it takes more discipline for a student to succeed
in an online course.
You
can download your free copy of the report from: http://www.sloan-c.org/info/12/survey.asp
We
encourage you to share this link with your colleagues.
Best
Regards,
I.
Elaine Allen, PhD
Director of Research
The Sloan Consortium
survey@sloan-c.org
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