News: Rise in Distance Enrollments - Inside Higher Ed: PHOENIX -- Community colleges continue to see increases in distance education enrollments, according to a report released at the annual meeting of the American Association of Community Colleges here.
A national survey of colleges by the Instructional Technology Council, an affiliate of the community college group, found that distance enrollments grew 11.3 percent from fall 2006 to fall 2007, the most recent period for which full data are available. Last year, the survey found an increase of 18 percent over the previous year. Given several recent years of significant gains in distance enrollments, such increases 'could not be sustained indefinitely,' says the report. It also notes that the administrators who provided answers for the survey said that they faced resource constraints on expanding distance programs.
