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06 May 08

Surge in Distance Ed at Community Colleges :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs

  • In the survey — completed by 320 institutions, a representative sample of community colleges nationally — the council found that online enrollments had increased by 15 percent on average over the last year, during a period when community colleges’ total enrollment was up by 2 percent.



    In addition, 70 percent of responding institutions reported that there was more student demand for distance learning than they could meet.



    “I think this shows that this is the area where a lot of the future growth and vitality of community colleges will be found,” said Fred Lokken, a member of the board of the council who presented the data at the AACC meeting, in Tampa.

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