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Sunday, July 24, 2005
The Myth about E-Learning: “We Don’t Need to Worry about E-Learning Anymore.” - Diana G. Oblinger and Brian L. Hawkins, EDUCAUSE Review
Now may be exactly the right time to “worry” about e-learning.... Online enrollments are predicted to continue growing. Not only are the numbers up; growth rates are climbing as well. The 2003 growth rate was 19.8 percent; the estimate for 2004 was 24.8 percent. In fact, online enrollment is growing faster than student enrollment. In a Sloan Consortium survey, 53.6 percent of institutions agreed that online education is critical to their long-term strategy. And a majority of academic leaders stated their belief that the quality of online instruction is equal to or better than the quality of traditional instruction. Although online learning clearly has a growing presence in higher education, discussions about implementing e-learning continue to lack consensus. Part of the problem, as noted above, is the definition of e-learning. Many educators assume e-learning to mean that an entire course and all the interactions between faculty and students are online. But today’s definition has morphed from a fully-online course to the use of technology to deliver some or all of a course.
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