September 05, 2003
The Quality and Extent of Online Education
"While there is now some statistical information available on distance education at higher education institutions in the United States, very few if any research surveys have focused on online education. The 2003 Sloan Survey of Online Learning was designed to find answers to some key questions related specifically
to online education delivered by higher education institutions in the United States.
When schools first began experimenting with online education over a decade ago, they were faced with a number of fundamental questions. The current study of degree-granting institutions of higher education in the United States allows us to answer a number of these questions, and pose some additional ones that merit further research."