About Anything » online learning http://www.alstevens.org The personal blog of Al Stevens. Focus is overrated. Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:18:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Sloan Consortium reports significant growth in K-12 online learning http://www.alstevens.org/2009/01/28/sloan-report/ http://www.alstevens.org/2009/01/28/sloan-report/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:18:55 +0000 Al Stevens http://www.alstevens.org/?p=277 The Sloan Consortium, an association of institutions and organizations committed to quality online education and administered through Babson College and Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering has issued a report that estimates  more than 1 million K-12 students are now taking classes online — a 47% increase from the Sloan Consortium’s original study done two years earlier. Of those students taking classes online the data show that the vast majority (69%) are enrolled at the high school level. The top reasons reported for the importance of online learning are:

  • Meeting the needs of specific groups of students
  • Offering courses not otherwise available at the school
  • Offering Advanced Placement or college-level courses
  • Permitting students who failed a course to take it again
  • Reducing scheduling conflicts for students

The study was conceived and developed by Anthony G. Picciano, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Jeff Seaman, Babson College. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, it consists of responses from 867 public school district chief administrators representing every region and all 50 states in the country.

Press release: Online Learning Takes Off in K-12 Schools

Report: K–12 Online Learning: A 2008 Follow-up of the Survey of U.S. School District Administrators

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