Report
Statistical Analysis Report
Distance Education in Higher Education Institutions
NCES
Author(s):
Laurie Lewis, Debbie Alexander, and Elizabeth Farris (Westat, Inc.)
Publication date:
October 1997
Survey areas:
Publication number:
NCES 98062
Summary
This PEQIS study was designed to provide nationally representative data about distance education course offerings in higher education institutions. The study obtained information about the percentage of institutions that currently offer and that plan to offer distance education courses in the next 3 years; distance education courses offerings, including the types of technologies used to deliver distance education courses and the sites to which such courses are directed; distance education enrollments and completions; characteristics of distance education courses and programs; distance education program goals; future plans for distance education course offerings; and factors keeping institutions from starting or expanding their distance education offerings.