Posts Tagged ‘Sloan Consortium’

December 2 - More Than Six Million Students Learning Online, Study Finds

By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education

For the past nine years the Sloan Consortium and the Babson Survey Research Group have taken a look at the state of online learning in the United States. The 2011 survey reveals that the number of students learning online has now surpassed 6 million, with nearly one-third of all students in higher education taking at least one online course.


January 6 - Annual Survey Provides Snapshot of Online Education

By: Mary Bart in Distance Learning Administration, Online Education, Trends in Higher Education

Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States, 2008 reports that higher education institutions believe that the economic changes will have a positive impact on overall college enrollments, with online courses and programs for working adults seeing the greatest interest.