Earlier this week, Babson Survey Research Group and WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies released the 2015 Online Report Card summarizing the status of online education in the United States. The report highlights, among other points that distance education (DE) continues to increase at degree granting institutions despite a decline in overall enrollments. The report utilizes, in addition to Babson's annual survey of online education, data from the National Center for Educational Statistics' Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) for fall 2012, 2013, and 2014. IPEDS began to require the reporting of DE enrollment from participating institutions in the fall of 2012. Through this short history of data collection a lot of valuable information can be gleaned about DE enrollments as it relates to institutional characteristics: such as size, location, sector and institutional level. The 2015 Online Report Card has some tremendous data in it and I encourage you to read it in addition to the data that I am sharing here.
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