New Report by the AASCU | Online Learning at Public Universities: Building a New Path to a College Degree

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities has released their 2013 report Online Learning at Public Universities: Building a New Path to a College Degree. You can access the report yourself by visiting: http://www.learninghouse.com/aascu2013-report/#report 

Hybrid course formats are formally discussed in a portion of this report, but we can certainly take the online findings and apply them to most of our circumstances too.

Positive Outcomes from Online or Hybrid Programs (p. 14):

• Increased student access (including students from outside of traditional target area)
• Pedagogical improvements
• Increased enrollment
• Increased revenue
• Growth in continuing education
• Enhance value of university brand
• Enrollment shifted from on ground to online
• Increased rate of degree completion
• Strengthened academic continuity in case of disaster
• Increased student diversity
• Improved student retention
• Positive impact to pedagogy of f2f classes!

Challenges to Serving Online Students (p. 13):

• Training and recruiting faculty to teach online
• Measuring outcomes
• Student retention
• Accommodating students with special needs
• Maintaining the Learning Management System (e.g. D2L)

Here is an infographic of some of the findings:

The Learning House, Inc.