Entering the Mainstream: The Quality and Extent of Online Education in the United States, 2003 and 2004.

By I. Allen, J. Seaman. 2004

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Increasing Access to Higher Education: A Study of the Diffusion of Online Teaching among 913 College Faculty. (2005, background): “The authors also report that more than 33 percent of such students took all of their courses online, and more than 80 percent of US colleges now offer at least one fully online or blended course (Allen and Seaman, 2004).”
SENSE OF COMMUNITY IN ONLINE COURSES (2006, unknown): “According to the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) between 1995 and 1998, the number of distance courses in general doubled, and online courses alone increased from 20% to 60% (NCES, 2000).”
A study of teaching presence and student sense of learning community in fully online and web-enhanced college courses (2006, background): “Online teaching and learning have witnessed tremendous growth in recent years, with estimates of more 2.5 million higher education enrollments in complete online courses in the United States (Allen & Seaman, 2004, 2005).”
A Review of Cheating in Fully Asynchronous Online Courses: A Math or Fact-Based Course Perspective (2007, background): “%) agree that online education is critical to their long-term strategy” (Allen & Seaman, 2004, p. 2).”