{"id":16271,"date":"2012-12-17T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/college-presidents-are-bigger-believers-than-public-in-online-classes\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:42:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:42:19","slug":"college-presidents-are-bigger-believers-than-public-in-online-classes","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2012\/12\/17\/college-presidents-are-bigger-believers-than-public-in-online-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"College Presidents Are Bigger Believers than Public in Online Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As online college courses have become increasingly prevalent, the general public and college presidents offer different assessments of their educational value. Just three-in-ten American adults (29%) say a course taken online provides an equal educational value to one taken in a classroom, according to a March 2011 survey. By contrast, fully half of college presidents (51%) say online courses provide the same value.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than three-quarters of the nation\u2019s colleges and universities in the survey offered online classes. About one-in-four college graduates (23%) have taken a course online, according to those in the general public who were surveyed. Among those who graduated in the past decade, the figure rises to 46%.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adults who have taken a course online have a somewhat more positive view of the value of this learning format: 39% say a course taken online provides the same educational value as one taken in person, a view shared by only 27% of those who have not taken an online course.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">College presidents see the trend towards online courses continuing. While 15% report that more than half of their current undergraduate student body has taken at least one course online, 50% predict that 10 years from now a majority of their students will be taking classes online. <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2011\/08\/28\/the-digital-revolution-and-higher-education\/2\/#overview\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2011\/08\/28\/the-digital-revolution-and-higher-education\/2\/#overview\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2011\/08\/2011-online-learning-01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"335\"><\/a><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College presidents and the public are 22 points apart on whether online courses offer comparable value to classroom 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