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Key Strategy for Public and Private, For-Profit Institutions
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Virtually
all Public institutions (96.2%) and 89.1% of Private, for-profit
institutions agree or are neutral to the statement that online learning
is critical to the long-term strategy of their institution. Over
three-quarters, 76.9%, of Private, nonprofit institutions agree
or are neutral. |
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Strength
of Agreement Increases with Size of School
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Chief
Academic Officers at larger schools are more likely to agree that
online education is critical to long-term strategy and schools with
less than 3,000 students enrolled are less likely to call this a
key strategy. Over 60% of academic leaders from schools with over
3,000 students agree with this statement, and virtually none disagree.
The results are different for smaller schools, however, where the
percentage agreeing is somewhat lower, and the percentage disagreeing
is considerably larger (15% to 20% compared to less than 5% for
the larger schools). |
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Three Years. All Institutions Expect Improvement in Online Learning
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Less
than one quarter (23%) of the respondents at all schools surveyed
expect online learning to be inferior to face-to-face learning in
three years. Considerable variation remains by institutional type:
20.9% of leaders at Private, nonprofit schools expect that face-to-face
learning will be superior, as compared to 37.5% of leaders at Public
sector institutions, and 58% at Private, for-profit institutions.
The percentage of leaders at Private schools expecting online learning
to be superior to face-to-face learning in three years almost triples
relative to the present - from 8.3% in Fall, 2003 to 20.9% in Fall,
2006 in the nonprofit sector and increases almost five-fold - from
12% in Fall, 2002 to 58% in Fall, 2006 for the for-profit sector.
This is consistent with the current and three-year projections from
last year's survey. |
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