Online Learning Update

by Lawrence S. Bacow, et al; Ithaka S+R

Digital technology has already changed the way colleges and universities function, but no matter how significant those changes feel today, real transformation is just beginning. Every day, a new program in online learning is announced, and on the horizon is the promise of using new adaptive learning technologies —or what we have come to call Interactive Learning Online—to educate more students than ever before at lower cost and with similar or even better learning outcomes. This Ithaka S+R report is the first in a series that will provide leaders in higher education insight into what has been learned from online learning efforts to date and new research to help them move forward with the development and deployment of more advanced systems in the future. Many of the lessons in this report can readily be applied locally; that is, they will help leaders make sound decisions for their own institutions.

http://www.ithaka.org/about-ithaka/announcements/barriers-to-adoption-of-online-learning-systems-in-us-higher-education.pdf