As mentioned in the Chronicle of Higher Education, a new Sloan Consortium report suggests that the higher education distance learning market is growing at almost 10 percent per year, compared to an overall growth rate of 1.5 percent.
1 out of 5 college students are taking a distance education course
These figures are based on 5 years of survey results across 2500 US universities and colleges.
A free PDF of the entire report is available here. This is just another piece of evidence that distance education, including online courses, have become a key success factor for US universities. Distance education is also a very popular delivery method for corporate training – that’s one reason I recommend that college students take a few online courses. The ability to learn at a distance has also become a key success factor for college graduates.
