The following statistics from one of their latest publications, Growing by Degrees: Online Education in the United States 2005. This is outline recent trends in online education based on teaching information, enrollment numbers, and growth predictions for online degrees.: Several interesting facts:
1. Sixty-five percent of higher education institutions report that they are using primarily core faculty to teach their online courses compared to 62% that report they are using primarily core faculty to teach their face-to-face courses. [wp_campaign_1]
2. Overall online enrollment increased from 1.98 million in 2003 to 2.35 million in 2004. The online enrollment growth rate is over ten times that projected by the National Center for Education Statistics for the general postsecondary student population.
3. Public institutions continue to express a strong belief that online education is key to their long-term strategy (67% in 2003, 66% in 2004, and 74% in 2005). However, Private, nonprofit schools which make this part of their long-term strategy are still in the minority, but the percentage continues to increase from 35% in 2003 to 37% in 2004 to 41% in 2005.
4. Although online education continues to penetrate into all types of institutions, a relatively stable minority of Chief Academic Officers (28% in 2003 compared with 31% in 2005) continue to believe that their faculty fully accept the value and legitimacy of online education."
The facts shows that more students are taking the distance education route to earn their bachelor's degree, but the question remains are online degrees accepted by potential employers? One of the largest online career management services, Vault Inc., conducted an online survey in which 85% of employers feel that online degrees are more acceptable today than they were just five years ago.
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