Grade Change: Tracking Online Education in the United States.

Permission is hereby granted for all non-commercial use of this report provided that notification is given to bsrg@babson.edu and proper attribution is included. Commercial use may also be granted – inquire at bsrg@babson.edu. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Grade Change-Tracking Online Education in the United States is the eleventh annual report in this series on tracking online education in the United States. It was originally known as the Sloan Online Survey, in recognition of our founding sponsor, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Foundation saw the need for the first of these reports and continued that commitment, supporting this independent study, offering full privacy for all respondents as well as free distribution of all report publications. We thank them for this. We also thank our current partners, the Sloan Consortium and Pearson, for supporting our research with the same degree of independence and autonomy. Beginning in 2006, the College Board agreed to include our online enrollment questions as part of their Annual Survey of Colleges, providing increased coverage of all of US higher education institutions. We thank them for seeing the value in our reports, and being such a pleasure to work with. The report was edited and reviewed by Nate Ralph and we thank him for his suggestions, corrections, and careful attention to detail and consistency. As always, we would also like to thank the people most important to these survey reports: the thousands of respondents who took the time to provide us with such detailed and thoughtful responses. We understand you are very busy people, and appreciate your effort. These reports would not be possible without you, and we hope you find them useful. PARTNERS Pearson Pearson has brought a wide array of experience in higher education to this project and will be producing the e-book version of the report and an infographic highlighting the results. Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global reach and market-leading businesses in education, business information and consumer publishing (NYSE: PSO). Pearson helps people and institutions break through to improved outcomes by providing innovative print and digital education materials, including personalized learning products such as MyLab and Mastering, education services including custom publishing, content-independent platforms including the EQUELLA digital repository, and the Pearson LearningStudio online learning platform and OpenClass online learning environment. The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) has been a long-time supporter and distributor of the national online learning reports in this series for the past ten …