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Three Stats That Signal the Transformation of Higher Education

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Snapshot Data are used by almost everyone in higher education to help understand trends and dynamics. While the November blog indicated that Snapshot Data undercounted total enrollment by nearly 6 million students in 2019 (the last pre-pandemic year), I didn’t go too far into where these missing students were hidden.

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Is Online Education Really in Trouble? No, and Here Is Why!

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Department of Education has finally released its first look into the 2022-2023 academic year. Their IPEDS snapshot data showcase how many students were enrolled in different types of programs on a given fall semester day. Again, this does not present a strong case for returning the focus to classroom programs.

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Five Eye-Opening Things We Learned About Online Education in 2022

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Over the course of the last 12 months, we published two groundbreaking reports focused on online education. In May, we released the inaugural Online Student Recruitment Report presenting findings from our survey of 1,600 prospective online students. Here’s what they said: 1. Average Marketing Spend is High.

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How Much Have We Been Undercounting Online Students?

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Millions of online undergraduate and graduate students may have been undercounted. Because online and graduate students are less committed to starting in the fall. Other findings include: 12-month data reveal more than 820,000 additional graduate students across all formats. What the data show.

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Course Design Support Is Crucial to Meet the Growing Demand for Online Learning

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Every year, I look forward to the release of the Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) report from QM and Eduventures, which shares results from a national survey of chief online officers (COOs) across higher education. for graduate students), this figure is still striking.

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Phil Hill Talks About the Impact of New IPEDS Data on Institutions and EdTech

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These data bring us a lot closer to what is really happening in higher education: a consistent focus on the importance of flexibility. million undergraduate students and more than 440,000 graduate students missing from the fall census data. Read the 2022 Online Program Marketing Practices Report.

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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

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Graduate students were far more likely to return to their pre-pandemic format in 2021. In the chart above, we see that while 638,000 additional graduate students were pushed into all online (or “emergency remote”) courses in fall 2020, only 349,000 of them decided not to continue in this format in fall 2021.