Elearning - February/March 2008 - (Page 14) Trendline Online Student Bodies Defined in Sloan Report The Sloan Consortium’s recent report titled “Making the Grade: Online Education in the United States, 2006” notes that online enrollments have been growing substantially faster than the overall higher education student body over the past several years ILT Development Is Not a Speedy Task Mean Undergraduate Online Enrollment by Size of Institution - Fall 2005 3,500 3,000 Online Enrollment 2,500 2,000 1,500 1,000 500 0 0 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 According to Bryan Chapman, a chief learning strategist who consults and researches through an alliance with Brandon Hall Research, the average development ratio for instructor-led training (ILT) is 36:1, meaning that 36 hours of development time are for each one hour of final ILT training. Chapman says the breakout looks like this: Here are some other points made in the report: >> Nearly 3.2 million students were taking at least one online course during the fall 2005 term — a substantial increase over the 2.3 million reported the previous year. >> Online students tend to be older and often hold additional employment and family responsibilities, as compared to more traditional students. >> Online students, like the overall student body, are overwhelmingly undergraduates. The proportion of graduate-level students is slightly higher in online education relative to the overall higher education population. >> Online students, especially undergraduates, are more likely to be studying at associates’ institutions than are their face-toface contemporaries. >> More than 96 percent of the very largest institutions (more than 15,000 total enrollments) have some online offerings, which is more than double the rate observed for the smallest institutions. >> The proportion of institutions with fully online programs rises steadily as institutional size increases, and about two-thirds of the very largest institutions have fully online programs, compared to only about one-sixth of the smallest institutions. >> Doctoral/research institutions have the greatest penetration of offering online programs as well as the highest overall rate (more than 80 percent) of having some form of online offering (either courses or full programs). The complete report is available at http://www.sloanc.org/publications/survey/survey06.asp. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Front-end analysis, including data collection and working with SMEs is 13% or 4.8 hours. Instructional design, including defining objectives, outlining and content development is 13% or 4.6 hours. Lesson plan development is 11% or 3.8 hours. Creation of handout material is 8% or 3 hours. Student guide development is 20% or 7.2 hours. PowerPoint development is 21% or 7.6 hours. Test and exam creation is 8% or 2.8 hours. Other tasks amount to 6% or 2.3 hours. Development of Instructor-Led Training (ILT) Itemized Development Tasks with hours overlay Other Development Tasks [2.3 hours] Test and Exam Creation [2.8 hours] 6% 8% 13% Front-End Analysis of Data Collection [4.8 hours] Instructional Design Objectives [4.6 hours] 13% PowerPoint Development [7.6 hours] 21% 11% 8% Creation of Handout Materials [3.0 hours] ■ Handouts ■ Other Lesson Plan Development [3.8 hours] Student Guide Development [7.2 hours] 20% ■ Analysis ■ Instructional Design ■ Lesson Plans ■ Student Guides ■ Power Point ■ Tests and Exams 14 February/March 2008 Elearning! http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/survey/survey06.asp http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/survey/survey06.asp
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