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Where Have Alll the Students Gone?
Enrollment Trends in Private Sector Higher Education
After years of double-digit growth in new student starts, private sector higher education providers encountered a vastly changed landscape in 2011, with total industry starts falling more than 20%. Market participants and investors are focused on a basic set of questions: Where have all the students gone? And when are they coming back? Many hypotheses have been offered on these questions, but – to date – little hard data.
March 2012 by Chris Ross
View: New Higher Education Model (Inside Higher Education)
October 6, 2011
Today, our public colleges and universities are facing some of the toughest challenges they have ever encountered. The choices they make about how they deliver quality education to the millions of students who depend on them will determine whether our country will continue to be a global economic leader, or whether other countries will surpass us in postsecondary achievement.
Click here for full text of the article.
Online and Hybrid Course Enrollment and Performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges (CCRC Working Paper No. 31)
By: Di Xu & Shanna Smith Jaggars — March 2011. New York: Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
This report investigates enrollment patterns and academic outcomes in online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses among students who enrolled in Washington State community and technical colleges in the fall of 2004. Students were tracked for nearly five years, until the spring of 2009. Results were similar to those found in a parallel study in Virginia.
Please click here for the Community College Research Center Website.
The abstract notes: …students were more likely to fail or withdraw from online courses than from face-to-face courses….
The authors suggest four stronger areas of student services integration:
- Student online readiness assessment
- Course management system tutorial
- Online support services
- Faculty development support
A pdf download of the report is also available on the CCRC website.
Enroll and Retain More Online Students: July Webinar
Join the Distance Learning Consortium to find out how to Enroll and Retain More Online Students. Webinars will be held the weeks of July 18 and July 25.
OpenText (FirstClass) Social Workplace Ver 2 released
OpenText Social Workplace offers a secure, highly collaborative feature set for use by Consortium client schools and training organizations. Collaborative Communities are created with a couple of clicks, and can be used to supplement online courses, or used for staff/faculty planning and document creation. Please watch: Open Text Social Workplace Ver 2.0
Joint Webinar on Title IV Program Integrity Regulations
If you missed last week’s webinar with Gragg Advertising and Choice Consulting, drop me a note and we’ll get a copy over to you.
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For a copy of the presentation, including audio, please click here.
No Going Back on State Approval Requirements
Don’t count on pending legislation to make the State Approval Requirements for online schools go away.
See this article from Inside Higher Education.
Elaborating on Online Accessibility
From: Inside Higher Education
May 27, 2011
The Department of Education on Wednesday elaborated on a 2010 letter urging college and university presidents to make sure that the “emerging technology” on their campuses squares with federal laws protecting disabled students from discrimination.
While the original “Dear Colleague” letter focused on recent controversies over the accessibility of classroom devices such as electronic readers. Wednesday’s addendum made it clear that online courses and their content also must be accessible to disabled students — even if none are currently enrolled.
Does teaching online increase the risk of faculty burnout?
May 16, 2011
Online education demolishes borders: borders between regulatory jurisdictions, between traditional and nontraditional learners, and between for-profit and nonprofit higher education.
But one pattern of erosion that has been less thoroughly documented has been the crumbling of the borders that define the work lives of college professors. Some experts fear that the boom in online education could lead to higher rates of burnout among faculty, especially those whose emotional satisfaction depends on face-to-face interactions with students and colleagues. At the same time, some suggest that technological advances in online learning environments, specifically tools that aim to make virtual interactions more rewarding, could reduce the risk of alienation for online instructors.
Online Education May Transform Higher Ed
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Online Education May Transform Higher Ed
The industry has experienced growing pains but may be on the path to maturity.
Posted: April 20, 2011
Can online education be the rock that disturbs the placid waters of American higher education? Several industry experts believe it will have a significant ripple effect on colleges and universities of all sizes in coming years—but only if it’s subject to regulation, governed by a common set of accreditation standards, and widely accepted by institutions who have long clung to the traditional face-to-face model of instruction.
