[OKAIR] ipeds spring

[Northrop, Gayle]

Several schools have asked us the definition of 'distance learning', so Michael and I just called ipeds help desk this morning for clarification-they said any course that is a separation of direct interaction  between student and teacher should be counted as distance learning for Fall enrollment.  We asked them each of our delivery methods specifically (element 30) and they said everything should be counted as distance except the traditional method.


From: Kevin David [mailto:kevin.david at tulsacc.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:47 PM
To: Billen, Isabelle; OKAIRP at lists.onenet.net
Cc: Northrop, Gayle
Subject: RE: ipeds spring

Isabelle,

The definitions for Distance Education and Distance Education Course from the IPEDS glossary are listed below. I interpret this to mean that any correspondence or online courses that meet entirely at a distance would apply but blended courses would not. I say that because the Distance Education Course says that the "...content is delivered exclusively via distance education."

Distance education

Education that uses one or more technologies to deliver instruction to students who are separated from the instructor and to support regular and substantive interaction between the students and the instructor synchronously or asynchronously.
Technologies used for instruction may include the following: Internet; one-way and two-way transmissions through open broadcasts, closed circuit, cable, microwave, broadband lines, fiber optics, satellite or wireless communication devices; audio conferencing; and video cassette, DVDs, and CD-ROMs, if the cassette, DVDs, and CD-ROMs are used in a course in conjunction with the technologies listed above.

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Distance education course

A course in which the instructional content is delivered exclusively via distance education<https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/GlossaryPage.aspx?idlink=713>.  Requirements for coming to campus for orientation, testing, or academic support services do not exclude a course from being classified as distance education.





Kevin M. David, Ph.D.
Director of Planning and Institutional Research
Tulsa Community College
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Tulsa, OK 74135-6198
(918) 595-7925
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Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 8:19 AM
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Subject: [OKAIR] ipeds spring

All,
For Part A - fall enrollment by Distance Education Status (new section this year) how are you defining Distance Education?  We've always defined distance education as those courses taught exclusively on-line (method-of-delivery = 04).  Do you count the other methods of delivery as distance education?

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