By Tony Bates, on February 8th, 2010
Garrett, R. (2009) Online Higher Education Market Update Boston MA: Eduventures Inc.
This post is an expansion of an earlier post ‘For-profits increase market share of online learning‘, now I’ve had a chance to read the original report in full. I am grateful to Eduventures for sharing a copy with me, as the report [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 31st, 2010
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (home of OLT)
It’s now seven years since I resigned as Director of Distance Education and Technology at UBC, and my motto has always been ‘Never look back.’ However, two things came together to bring me back to UBC last week with a ‘formal’ [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 27th, 2010
Allen, I. and Seaman, J. (2010) Learning on Demand: Online Education in the United States Babson Park MA: Babson College Survey Research Group
The Sloan Consortium continues its invaluable annual survey of online learning in the USA in 2009, showing that enrolments in online learning grew 17% last year, compared with overall enrolment growth [...]
By Tony Bates, on December 22nd, 2009
Where will we put them all?
Canadian Press (2009) University enrolment up, as grads return to school Macleans Oncampus, October 26
University enrolments in Canada for the 2009-2010 academic year were up 4.5% from the previous year.
From the report:
The spike in enrolment is occurring as cash-strapped [...]
By Tony Bates, on December 21st, 2009
Parry, M. (2009) For-Profits Gobble Up More of Online Market Amid Recession Chronicle of Higher Education, December 18.
A recent report by Eduventures claims that for-profit universities now constitute 42% of all the post-secondary 2.1-million-student online sector, compared with 9% for the overall post-secondary market (all figures for USA). Furthermore the for-profit ‘bite’ of [...]
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