Tracking Online Education in the United States, 2015
You can read the report on the survey here, and below are some of its key findings:
- The percentage of academic leaders who said online learning was
critical to their institution’s mission dropped from 71 percent, in 2014 — the highest ever — to 63 percent.- The number of distance-education students increased at a slightly
higher rate — 3.9 percent — from 2014 to 2015 than it did in the
previous year.- The percentage of academic leaders who said their faculty members
believe online education is legitimate remained very low — 29 percent.