Colleges Crossing Borders – Counts and State Authorization: IPEDS Reality Check
Published by: Russ Poulin | 3/11/2014 | 1 comments
March 11, 2014 This is the third in a series of blog posts examining data recently released by the U.S. Department of Education’s IPEDS survey on distance education (DE) enrollments. Our first blog post in this series looked at students enrolled exclusively or partially in distance education courses. Our second reviewed the geographic location of […]
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Where in the World Are Our Distance Education Students?: IPEDS Reality Check
Published by: Russ Poulin | 3/7/2014 | 6 comments
This is the second in a series of blog posts examining data recently released by the U.S. Department of Education’s IPEDS survey on distance education enrollments. Our first blog post in this series looked at the percentage of students enrolled exclusively in distance education or taking at least one distance education course. What about the […]
U.S. Distance Education Adoption by the Numbers: an IPEDS Reality Check
Published by: Russ Poulin | 3/5/2014 | 4 comments
This is the first of a series of posts providing insight on data regarding enrollments in distance education that was released by the U.S. Department of Education earlier this year. Terri Straut crunched the data for WCET. Terri has a deep knowledge of the distance education world and we appreciate her thorough analysis. As noted […]
Distance Education in IPEDS
Published by: Russ Poulin | 11/28/2012 | 0 comments
There are some exciting changes in the Integrated Postsecondary Data Education System (IPEDS) data collection. Most notably, IPEDS has started to collect more information on postsecondary distance education. In the 2011-12 data collection year, IPEDS began asking institutions if they were exclusively a distance education institution (i.e. all of their programs are offered via distance […]
Learner Progress: Capturing the Adult Learner
Published by: Ashley Woods | 12/14/2011 | 0 comments
Cali Morrison, Transparency by Design Project Director, brings to Frontiers the process by which the Transparency by Design initiative created the recently launched learner progress metrics available on its website College Choices for Adults. The Problem Transparency by Design (TbD) member institutions recognized that the national metrics for measuring learner retention and completion, the Integrated […]