In 2002, less than one-half (50%) of all higher education institutions reported online education was critical to their long-term strategy. In 2013, that number is close to seventy percent (70%).

Source: Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States, Babson Survey Research Group, The Sloan Consortium, and Pearson.

The proportion of chief academic leaders that say online learning is critical to their long-term strategy is now at 69.1 percent – the highest it has been for this ten-year period.

Source: Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States, Babson Survey Research Group, The Sloan Consortium, and Pearson.

The number of students taking at least one online course increased by over 570,000 to a new total of 6.7 million.

Source: Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States, Babson Survey Research Group, The Sloan Consortium, and Pearson.

Students in online conditions performed modestly better, on average, than those learning the same material through traditional face-to-face instruction.

Source: Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies, US Department of Education, September 2010.

edX and San Jose State University pilot a difficult circuits and electronic course. The result: 40% of student in the conventional class got a grade of C or lower, and only 9% in the blended edX class got such a lower grade.

Source: The New York Times, January 15th, 2013.

The Indonesian government approved a new regulation to make it easier for higher education institutions to offer high quality online degrees: Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan No. 24 Tahun 2012 (April 26th, 2012).

Mr. Boediono, Indonesia’s Vice President, requested the Minister of Education to continue developing the blue print for online education in Indonesia during an annual meeting with Presidents of all universities in Indonesia (January 28th, 2013).

71% of leaders of for-profit colleges and universities report that their institutions offer classes online, and more than half (54%) say these classes offer the same value as classes taken in person.

Source: The Digital Revolution and Higher Education, Pew Research Center.

The proportion of all students taking at least one online course is at an all-time high of 32.0 percent.

Source: Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States, Babson Survey Research Group, The Sloan Consortium, and Pearson.