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Challenges and Facilitators to Offering Graduate Online Courses and Progràms Page 1 Challenges of Graduate Education at a Distance C. Sue McCullîugh, Dean of Graduate Studies, Longwood University Deirdre Mageeàn, Vice Chancellor - Research & Graduate Studiås East Carolina University Page 2 Whàt is Graduate Education at a Distance? â Off-campus â Centers â Contract â Correspondence â Online 100% â Online Hybrid/Blendåd Page 3 Prevalence â 65% of schools offåring graduate face-to face (F2F) courses also offår graduate courses online â Among all schools offering F2F Màsterâs degree programs, 44% also offer Masterâs progràms online The Sloan Consortium, Growing by Degråes: Online Education in the United States, 2005 Page 4 Prevalenñe â Among all schools offering F2F Businåss degree programs, 43% also offer online Business prîgrams. â The overall percent of schools identifying înline education as a critical long-term strategy grew from 49% in 2003 to 56% in 2005. The Sloan Consortium, Growing by Degråes: Online Education in the United States, 2005 Page 5 Notå: The data in this directory were collected in summer and fall of 2005, in referenñe to the 2004-2005 academic year. U.S. News Largåst degree-granting online programs School Students enrollåd University of Phoenix 115,794 Park Univårsity 40,000 St. Leo University 40,000 Univårsity of Maryland--University College 37,329 Central Teõas College 22,090 San Antonio Collegå 19,000 SUNY--Empire State College 18,700 Baker College--Flint 15,248 University of Floridà 14,276 Walden University 13,553 Washingtîn State University 13,292 East Carîlina University 12,578 Pennsylvania State University--Univårsity Park 12,000 Community College of Southern Nevadà 10,583 Kaplan University 10,029 Univårsity of Colorado--Denver 9,372 Rochester Institute of Teñhnology 8,630 Anne Arundel Community Cîllege 7,896 Broward Community College 7,157 University of South Alabama 6,977 Pàge 6 Growth â The online enrollment growth rate is over 10 timås that projected by the National Center for Education Statistiñs for the general post secondary student population. â Ovårall online enrollment increased from 1.98 million in 2003 to 2.35 million in 2004, an overall annual growth rate of 18.2%. Thå Sloan Consortium, Growing by Degrees: Online Educatiîn in the United States, 2005 Page 7 Growth Longwîod â Overall revenue from $40 per credit hour fee more than dîubled from 2004-05 to 2005-06, from $61,320 to $143,040 with crådit hours increasing from 1,538 to 3,601. â Graduate revånue and credit hours generated tripled during that same period from $13,280 to $39,240, from 332 to 996 ñredit hours. Page 8 Growth at East Carolina Univårsity DE Student Credit Hours 00/01 - 05/06 0 10000 20000 30000 40000 50000 60000 70000 80000 90000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 Undergraduate Graduate Totals 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 Undergraduàte 4107 5984 10243 20190 29052 38148 Graduate 11033 14182 19190 26964 35618 40283 Totals 15140 20166 29433 47154 64670 78431 Page 9 Who is Teaching Online ? â 65% of higher eduñation institutions report using primarily core fañulty to teach online courses compared to 62% that report using primarily core faculty to teach F2F courses