I’m Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior creator at The Chronicle of Higher Education, covering innovation in and around the academe. Here’s what I’m considering this week.
For states, online training is left out of the lever of education coverage.
Sometimes, all it takes is one compelling picture to power home a point. Last week, at the Eduventures Summit in Boston, one slide in a presentation by Richard Garrett did it for me. It became a color-coded kingdom map of “Winners and Losers” in online education.
The map, along with Garrett’s commentary, highlighted for me some neglected opportunities. Many states are not taking concerted steps to apply online education to promote the priorities that kingdom leaders have traditionally championed, along with affordability, right of entry to, or assembly of the needs of nearby employers.
Garrett, the leader studies officer at Eduventures, an advisory and research agency, spoke about trends in distance education, including the dominant position now being performed by institutions like Southern New Hampshire University (which I wrote about around the remaining year) and other online mega-universities. Then he confirmed that slide on how states stack up their populace of online college students. It compared the range of citizens enrolled in online applications at out-of-state institutions to those registered online in-state.
In eight states, the quantity of citizens enrolled in an out-of-nation online application exceeds the range registered online in-country. In all, however, in 17 states, the number of residents enrolled online at out-of-nation schools is at least half the number enrolled online at an in-country university. That is the case even though surveys, including one released final week using Learning House and Aslanian Market Research, display that online students decide upon faculties within 50 miles of where they live. Notably, the out-of-state trend becomes less standard in states with a high-profile alternative, like New Hampshire (SNHU), Arizona (Arizona State University), and Florida (the Universities of
