For each of the past six years, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has funded a study on the state of online learning in U.S. higher education based on survey responses from more than 2,500 colleges and universities.
The 2008 report shows that online enrollments continue to grow at rates that far exceed the total student population with no signs of slowing. Specifically:
Over 3.9 million students were taking at least one online course during the fall 2007 term; a 12 percent increase over the number reported the previous year.
The 12.9 percent growth rate for online enrollments far exceeds the 1.2 percent growth of the overall higher education student population.
Over twenty percent of all U.S. higher education students were taking at least one online course in the fall of 2007.
Read the full report-
Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States, 2008
In 1997, Jones International University became the first, fully online university regionally accredited in the United States. To my knowledge, Rockbridge Seminary would be the first, fully online seminary to earn regional accreditation.
