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Lamar University

Cynthia Cummings, Ed.D.Diane Mason, Ph.D.Kay Abernathy, Ed.D.Sheryl Abshire, Ph. D.

Why Online?

Why Online?

• 6.1 million students took at least one online course in 2010 and there was an additional reported increase of 560,000 in 2011 (Allen & Seaman, 2011)

• Prediction of 27.34 million higher education students in the United States by 2014 (Ambient Insight Research, 2009)

Source: 2011 Survey of Online Learning, Babson Survey research Group

National Online Learning FactsHigher Ed

• Bacow, Bowen, Guthrie, Lack, and Long (2012) reported that elearning is being offered at almost every college or university

• -31percent of the students in higher education reported having taken at least one online course (Allen & Seaman, 2011). -12.8 percent will complete all of their coursework online, 18.65 million (68.2 percent) will take some online courses (Allen& Seaman, 2011)

• -According to a survey of 4,523 United States higher education institutions conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group, data from 2,512 respondents revealed over 6.1 million students took at least one online course in 2010 and there was an additional reported increase of 560,000 in 2011 (Allen & Seaman, 2011).

National Online Learning FactsK-12 (iNACOL - 2012)

• 27 states have virtual schools • 31 states including Washington, D.C. offer fully

online school• Estimated 1,816,400 enrolled in online courses

with 74% of the enrollments in high school• 270,000 students enrolled in fully online

schools 2011-2012 up from 2,000 in 2000

• Forty percent of all middle and high school students are interested in taking online courses – NACOL (2007)

• Sixty-nine percent of parents surveyed said they would be willing to let their child take a high school course online for credit - Education Next and Harvard study (2008)

Online Learning Demand: Students and Parents

“...on average, students in online learning conditions

performed better than those receiving face-to-face classes.”

Evidence Based Practices of Online Learning, 2009

“Forget Harvard and think Lamar University.”

Online Master’s of Education students at Lamar University who took the state principal exam in the spring and summer of 2012 averaged 10 percentage points higher than students statewide and also scored higher than most campus-based students who have taken the same exam.

Results correlate well with the findings of a June 2009 U.S. Department of Education study, entitled Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning (www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf) that found that students who participate in part or all of their instruction online perform as well as or in some cases outperform students enrolled in the same on-campus classes.

“Using the Internet to deliver courses seems to contain great disruptive potential. It could allow a radical transformation to happen in an incremental, rational way.” -Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns predicts that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet.

One University’s Response to Higher Ed Online Learning

M.Ed•Educational Administration•Educational Technology Leadership

with Principal Certification•Teacher Leadership•Counseling and Special Populations

Ed.D. in Educational LeadershipConcentrations in:

– Effective Schooling–Diversity/Multiculturalism–Higher Education–Technology

Ed.D. in Educational Leadership Course Requirements

• 60 semester hours: – 21 hours core– 15 hours in selected concentration/electives– 12 hours in research– 12 hours of dissertation

First Hand Experiences

Educational Leadership and Technology Graduates

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• Graduate Programs• Admission Requirements• Lamar Application

Questions and Answers

Link to presentation at slideshare:http://tinyurl.com/axsygkx

Contact Information

Sheryl Abshire, Ph.D.sheryl.abshire@lamar.edu

Diane Mason, Ph.D.diane.mason@lamar.edu

Cynthia Cummings, Ed.D.cdcummings@lamar.edu

Kay Abernathy, Ed.D.lkayabernathy@lamar.edu