Trends and Implications Online Learning

Taken from “Staying the Course - Online Education in the United States, 2008,” a survey of more than 2,500 universities and colleges sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. ( Enrollments in Online Learning

Sloan Survey Summary –Online enrollments continue to grow at rates far in excess of the total higher education student population, with no signs of slowing. –Over twenty percent of all U.S. higher education students were taking at least one online course in the fall of –58% of the sampled institutions state that online learning is critical to their institutional strategy. Taken from “Staying the Course - Online Education in the United States, 2008,” an annual survey of more than 2,500 universities and colleges sponsored by the Sloan Consortium.

Why Online Learning? Flexibility, Convenience, Economy, Efficiency. From Student Success and Retention in Online Courses, Bellevue Community College, November 2006,

Less Important Reasons From Student Success and Retention in Online Courses, Bellevue Community College, November 2006,

Why NOT Online Learning? From Student Success and Retention in Online Courses, Bellevue Community College, November 2006,

What’s Changed Out There? Social Trends – Technology goes “Main Street” Moore's Law: processor speed doubles every 18 months Cell Phones, GPS, MP3 players, smart cars Use of Internet for everyday (leisure) tasks: shopping, reading, movies, TV, radio, etc. –GenNet - the Internet has always “been there.” Instant Messenger, , music files, INTERNET! MySpace, FaceBook, You-Tube, INTERNET! Social networking, entertainment, INTERNET! –The nature of education is changing. Recommended : Portal to Information Literacy ( New Answers for E-Learning – Wikis and avatars are improving the educational experience ( answers-for-e-learning.html, 2008) answers-for-e-learning.html

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Basement Contains traditional technologies: textbooks, audiovisual materials, etc. Contains infrastructure to use these technologies: libraries, labs, etc. First Floor Real-Time Interactions -Seminars Office Hours Time-Delayed Interactions -Homework Learning By Doing -Labs -Writing -Libraries Directed Lecture -Lecture Hall -Textbooks Second Floor Contains enhancements to 1 st floor practices Requires the use of instructional technologies Third Floor Contains large-scale structures that support new educational concepts such as Distributed Learning and Online Learning Stephen C. Ehrmann (1998) “Technology in Higher Education”

Technology Adoption Lifecycle From Crossing the Chasm, Geoffery A. Moore, 1998

Moore’s “Chasm” From Crossing the Chasm, Geoffery A. Moore, 1998