Thursday, March 29, 2018

Educators Tend to Forget That Most Online Students Still Live Near Campus - Henry Kronk, eLearning Inside

The majority of online students live within 100 miles of the university in which they are enrolled. According to a report updated in 2017 by College Atlas, the figure stands at 80%. Only 1 in 5 online students live far away from their campus. What’s more, the proportion of online students who live near their university has only grown in recent years. A 2016 survey of online college students by Learning House and Aslanian Market Research found that, among undergraduates, 57% lived less than 50 miles away, while 17% were between 50-100 miles out. Four years earlier, in 2012, those figures stood at 47% and 16%, respectively. The growth was even greater for graduate students. https://news.elearninginside.com/educators-tend-to-forget-that-most-online-students-still-live-near-campus/