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"Survey" Continued
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 Only one quarter of the respondents at all schools surveyed expect online learning to be inferior to face-to-face learning in three years. Considerable variation remains by institutional type: almost 40% of leaders at Private, nonprofit schools expect that face-to-face learning will be superior, as compared to only 12% of leaders at Public sector institutions. The percentage of leaders at Private non-profit schools expecting online learning to be superior to face-to-face learning in three years almost triples relative to the present from 7% in Fall, 2002 to 20.4% in Fall, 2005; and in for profits, from 12% in Fall, 2002 to 34.3% in Fall, 2005.
What's next?
With solid indicators that students and institutions
have embraced online learning, it is now
time to turn our attention to other issues
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- Every class of institution expects
improvement in learning outcomes for online
courses relative to those for face-to-face
instruction. What aspects of the delivery
of online education do they think will bring
about
this perceived improvement in quality?
- The vast majority of online students enroll
in public institutions. How will online
education evolve among private institutions?
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The 2003 Sloan
Survey of Online Learning was supported
by a grant from the Sloan Foundation
with the collaboration of the Sloan Consortium
and the Sloan Center for OnLine Education
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An e-mail with a link to a web-based survey form was sent to Chief Academic Officers at degree granting institutions of higher education in the United States. The survey responses were merged with the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System for analysis. Of 3,033 surveys sent, 994 responses were received, representing a 32.8% response rate. The responders and nonresponders were compared to create weights, to ensure that the survey results reflected the characteristics of the entire population of schools. |
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