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Babson research finds most institutions remain undecided about massive open online courses WELLESLEY, Mass., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 2012 Survey of Online Learning conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group reveals the number of students taking at least one online course has now surpassed 6.7 million. Higher education adoption of massive open online courses (MOOCs) remains low, with most institutions still on the sidelines. "The rate of growth in...

WELLESLEY, Mass., Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 2011 Survey of Online Learning reveals that the number of students taking at least one online course has now surpassed 6 million. Now nearly one-third of all students in higher education are taking at least one online course. "The rate of growth in online enrollments is ten times that of the rate in all higher education," said study co-author I. Elaine Allen, Co-Director of the Babson Survey Research Group and Professor of...

DENVER, April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- College faculty are twice as likely as other workers to be using social media as part of their job, and more than 80 percent of faculty are using some form of social media in their teaching, according to a new survey from the Babson Survey Research Group and Pearson. The results were presented during Cite 2011, Pearson's 12th annual higher education technology conference. The survey of nearly 2,000 faculty found that more than 90 percent of college...

WELLESLEY, Mass., Nov. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The 2010 Sloan Survey of Online Learning reveals that enrollment rose by almost one million students from a year earlier. The survey of more than 2,500 colleges and universities nationwide finds approximately 5.6 million students were enrolled in at least one online course in fall 2009, the most recent term for which figures are available. "This represents the largest ever year-to-year increase in the number of students studying...

Annual Survey Shows Recession, Influenza among Factors Driving Growth WELLESLEY, Mass., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 2009 Sloan Survey of Online Learning reveals that enrollment rose by nearly 17 percent from a year earlier. The survey of more than 2,500 colleges and universities nationwide finds approximately 4.6 million students were enrolled in at least one online course in fall 2008, the most recent term for which figures are available. "Online enrollments in U.S. higher...