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November 6, 2009
Blended Online Education
Campus Technology website has an interesting summary of their webinar and some research:
Most College Students To Take Classes Online by 2014
1. "Nearly 12 million post-secondary students in the United States take some or all of their classes online right now."
2. "This number will skyrocket to more than 22 million in the next five years, according to data released recently by research firm Ambient Insight."
3. "Some 1.25 million students in higher education programs take all of their classes online, while another 10.65 take some of their classes online. The two groups are still outnumbered by students who take all of their courses in physical classrooms, which Ambient Insight reckoned at 15.14 million as of 2009."
4. "This situation will change drastically by 2014, at which time, Adkins forecast, only 5.14 million students will take all of their courses in a physical classroom, while 3.55 million will take all of their classes online, and 18.65 million will take some of their classes online."
Despite the recession, online learning is still growing. This research implies that the context for libraries in academic and college settings will transform very rapidly in the next five years, which isn't a very big window.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at November 6, 2009 10:12 AM