Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This is interesting data, at least for U.S. based institutions (though I would be surprised were the trend not the same elsewhere as well). Online learning, writes Phil Hill, has reached a new equilibrium point, lower than peak levels during the pandemic, but noticeably higher than what we saw before. "Within that equilibrium, undergraduate and graduate online enrollment look quite different once we separate mixed-modality from exclusively online students, despite nearly identical topline participation rates. And at the institutional level, online growth can represent genuine expansion or simply offset losses elsewhere."

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