E-Learning Research

E-Books

Research Reports

  • Association of Public Land-Grant Universities and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2009 Research Reports

  • Online Learning as a Strategic Asset: Volume I: A Resource for Campus Leaders (pdf)

  • Online Learning as a Strategic Asset: Volume II: The Paradox of Faculty Voices: Views and Experiences with Online Learning (pdf)

  • Sloan Consortium - 8 Reports of Studies on the Growth and Extent of Online Learning

    1. Class Differences: Online Education in the United States, 2010 (pdf)
    2. Learning On Demand: Online Education in the US, 2009 (pdf)
    3. Staying the Course: Online Education in the US, 2008 (pdf)
    4. Online Nation, 2007 (pdf)
    5. Making the Grade, Online Education in the US, 2006 (pdf)
    6. Making the Grade, Online Education in the US, 2006 – Southern Edition (pdf)
    7. Growing By Degrees: Online Education in the US, 2005 (pdf)
    8. Growing By Degrees: Online Education in the US, 2005 – Southern Edition (pdf)
  • No Significant Difference: Compilation of Research Studies on Instruction Mediated by Technology since 1928 (link)

  • Learning at a Distance: Undergraduate Enrollment in Distance Education Courses and Degree Programs (pdf)

News Articles

  • US News & World Report Article (link)

  • Zogby International Poll – Online Degrees Earn Wider Acceptance in the Business World (link)

  • Baton Rouge Business Report.com – How to Save Higher Education (Distance Learning Mentioned) (link)

  • BARRON’s Investors’ Soapbox – For-Profit College Enrollment Surging (link)

Conference and Meeting Presentation and Proceedings

  • Faculty Development to Meet the Online/Blended Teaching Time and Effort Challenges. Presentation by Research Kathryn Ley from University of Houston-Clear Lake (pdf)