While overall enrollment in higher education has fallen in the past three years, the number of students taking classes at a distance has continued to grow, a new report shows. In 2015, more than six million students — nearly 30 percent of college students — took at least one course online. Nearly half of those students took courses exclusively online.
The report, Digital Learning Compass: Digital Education Enrollment Report 2017,also documents the shifting patterns of online enrollment — away from for-profit colleges and toward private nonprofit institutions.
