"The 2010 Sloan Survey of Online Learning reveals
that enrollment rose by almost one million students from a year
earlier.
The survey of more than 2,500 colleges and universities nationwide
finds approximately 5.6 million students were enrolled in at least one online
course in fall 2009, the most recent term for which figures are
available.
"This represents the largest ever year-to-year
increase in the number of students studying online," said study co-author I
Elaine Allen, Co-Director of the Babson Survey Research Group and Professor of
Statistics & Entrepreneurship at Babson College. "Nearly thirty percent of
all college and university students now take at least one course
online.""
"The Digital Learning Compass Partnership
Since 2003, the Babson Survey Research Group (BSRG) has conducted national surveys on enrollments, activities, and attitudes regarding online learning for U.S. colleges and universities. When the U.S. Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Survey (IPEDS) began collecting distance learning enrollments in the Fall of 2012, BSRG switched to reporting the Department's statistics.
e-Literate and WCET conducted their own separate and joint analyses of the IPEDS enrollment data. After noting small differences in the numbers reported, the three organizations harmonized the data sets they used and continued to share what was learned behind the scenes.
Realizing that we accomplish more together (and that we liked each other's data wonk personalities), the three organizations partnered in 2017 to create the Digital Learning Compass. "