{"id":63207,"date":"2018-04-11T19:09:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T23:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=63207"},"modified":"2018-04-12T08:26:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:26:46","slug":"2018-online-education-trends-report-2018-students-guide-to-online-education-bestcolleges-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/04\/11\/2018-online-education-trends-report-2018-students-guide-to-online-education-bestcolleges-com\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Online Education Trends Report\u00a0&#038; 2018 Student&#8217;s Guide to Online Education [BestColleges.com]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Per Catie Chase from BestColleges.com:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As you know, online education is rapidly expanding. At\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=http-3A__www.bestcolleges.com&amp;d=DwMCAg&amp;c=4rZ6NPIETe-LE5i2KBR4rw&amp;r=1DStzSiv1Q8PLnjVGiJHMRjBODQ5n9rxHZZ7Qg-i8NY&amp;m=vPoxavUeC5Hl8X40I8m90Rl48rIZP-PHaJPynl5HJ9M&amp;s=uVNcpd1FvrUAHaAIewmhtZcGjtDUpCMtbS_NIzFtn9U&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BestColleges.com<\/a>\u00a0we believe\u00a0it\u2019s important to evaluate the latest trends in distance education and measure the impact to both students and academic institutions. This is an industry that evolves quickly and these results offer relevant, current insights we are excited to learn from and share with the online learning community.<\/p>\n<p>To keep up with these trends, we surveyed 1,800 online students and university administrators and published two reports based on our findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestcolleges.com\/perspectives\/annual-trends-in-online-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2018 Online Education Trends Report<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Synthesizing all of the data we gathered in our study, this academic report provides a holistic look at the current state of online education and offers predictions for where it&#8217;s headed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestcolleges.com\/perspectives\/annual-student-guide-to-online-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Student&#8217;s Guide to Online Education<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Most students we spoke with wished they&#8217;d known more about online education and how to choose a quality online program prior to enrolling. We built this guide as a launching point for prospective students to gain that knowledge and make informed decisions on their education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>In an effort to develop a broader understanding of how common perceptions of online education are changing, we added several questions for both students and school administrators to the study this year. A majority of students (79%) felt that online learning is either \u201cbetter than\u201d or \u201cequal to\u201d on-campus learning. They felt their employers (61%), future employers (61%), and the general public (58%) also had a similarly positive perception of online learning.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">It is highly likely that in the very near future, the question won&#8217;t even be asked anymore what employers think of online-based learning and whether they will hire someone that&#8217;s taken a significant portion of their coursework online. They won&#8217;t have a choice. This is especially true if and when more advanced technologies and capabilities get further baked into online-based learning &#8212; i.e., truly personalized\/customized learning (which most faculty members &#8212; including myself &#8212; and teachers can&#8217;t deliver), virtual reality, artificial intelligence, chatbots, personal digital assistants, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The better question could become:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>To what extent will campus-based learning be impacted when truly personalized\/customized learning is offered via online-based means?<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">My guess?\u00a0 There will continue to be a significant amount of people who want to learn in a physical campus-based setting &#8212; and that&#8217;s great! But the growth of online learning will grow even more (a lot more) if truly personalized learning occurs via online-based means.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>99% of administrators found that demand for online education has increased or stayed the same over the past few years. Almost 40% of respondents plan to increase their online program budgets in the next year.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>This year, 34% of schools reported that their online students are younger than in previous years, falling into the \u201ctraditional\u201d college age range of 18-25, and even younger as high school students take college courses before graduating. Several schools noted that recent high school graduates are entering the workforce while also pursuing a college education.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per Catie Chase from BestColleges.com: As you know, online education is rapidly expanding. At\u00a0BestColleges.com\u00a0we believe\u00a0it\u2019s important to evaluate the latest trends in distance education and measure the impact to both students and academic institutions. This is an industry that evolves quickly and these results offer relevant, current insights we are excited to learn from and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,356,817,174,115,302,112,3,482,102,7,510,87,62,69,84,66,50,188,460,206,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-bots","category-career-development","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-corporate-business-world","category-higher-education","category-intelligent-systems","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-learning-spaces","category-online-learning","category-personalizedcustomized-learning","category-smart-classrooms","category-student-related","category-teaching-learning","category-teaching-online","category-technology-general","category-trends","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63207"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63223,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63207\/revisions\/63223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}