Educational Research Reports Center (ERRC)

(reports/studies prior to 2010 located under Archived Reports)
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(Revised 2/22/2013)

Educational Statistics (2010-2012)

•      National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (2011). Learning at a Distance Undergraduate Enrollment in Distance Education Courses and Degree Programs: 2008. Washington, DC

*Download: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2012/2012154.pdf

•      National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (2011). Distance Education Courses for Public Elementary and Secondary School Students: 2009-2011. Washington, DC

*Download: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2012/2012008.pdf

•      National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (2010). Teachers' Use of Educational Technology in U.S. Public Schools: 2009. Washington, DC

*Download: http://www.nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010040.pdf

Online Enrollment (2010-2012)

•      Changing Course--10 Yrs of Tracking Online Education in the U.S. (2013). Babson Survey Research Group, Quahog Research Group, LLC, and The Sloan Consortium

Download: http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/changingcourse.pdf

•      The Sloan Consortium, Going the Distance: Online Education in the United States, 2011

Download: http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/goingthedistance.pdf

•      The Sloan Consortium, Class Differences: Online Education in the United States, 2010

Download: http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/pdf/class_differences.pdf

Distance Learning/Online/e-Learning Effectiveness

•      Mickey Shachar, M., & Neumann, Y. (2010) Years of Research on the Academic Performance Differences Between Traditional and Distance Learning: Summative Meta-Analysis and Trend Examination. MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2010

Download: http://significantfederation.com/eblast/2010.06.21/landing/20_Years_of_Research_Differences_Between_Traditional_and_Distance_Learning.pdf

•      U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies, Washington, D.C., 2010.

* Download: http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf

•      The Comparative Effectiveness of Web-Based and Classroom Instruction: A Meta-Analysis

*Download: http://www.moresteam.com/ADLMetaAnalysisPaper.doc

•      U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement, Evaluating Online Learning: Challenges and Strategies for Success, Washington, D.C., 2008.

*Download: http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/academic/evalonline/evalonline.pdf

•      Multidisciplinary Methods in Educational Technology: Research and Development (2007)

Download: http://www.archive.org/download/MultidisciplinaryMethodsInEducationalTechnologyResearchAndDevelopment/multidisciplinary_methods.pdf

•      The Institute for Higher Education Policy (1999), A Review of Contemporary Research on the Effectiveness of Distance Learning in Higher Education

*Download: http://www.ihep.org/assets/files/publications/s-z/WhatDifference.pdf

•      The No Significant Difference Phenomenon: http://www.nosignificantdifference.org/

Education Transformation/Innovation:

•      Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Cummins, M., Estrada, V., Freeman, A., and Ludgate, H. (2013). The NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.

Download: http://www.nmc.org/system/files/pubs/1360189731/2013-horizon-report-HE.pdf

•      Johnson, L., Adams, S., and Cummins, M. (2012). The NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.

Download: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2012.pdf

•      Johnson, L., Smith, R., Willis, H., Levine, A., and Haywood, K., (2011). The 2011 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium

*Download: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf

•      Johnson, L., Adams, S., and Haywood, K., (2011). The 2011 NMC Horizon Report: K-12 Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium

*Download: http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2011-Horizon-Report-K12.pdf

•      Johnson, L., Levine, A., & Smith, R., & Stone, S. (2010). The 2010 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium

*Download: http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2010-Horizon-Report.pdf

Online Learning Reports/Studies:

•      U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, Evaluation Reports.

* Download: www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/opepd/ppss/reports.html

•      Learning styles & pedagogy in post-16 learning-A systematic and critical review (2004)

Download: http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/edskas/learning%20styles.pdf

•      National Institute for Literacy (2008), Investigating the Language and Literacy Skills Required for Independent Online Learning, Washington, DC 20008

*Download: http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/publications/pdf/NIFLOnlineLearningReport.pdf

Watershed (Benchmark) Reports:

•      Saba, Fred (2011). Distance Education in the United States, Past, Present, Future. EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY/November-18 December 2011

Download: http://distance-educator.com/wp-content/uploads/ET-article-Saba-11-12-2011.pdf

•      National Educational Technology Plan 2010. Office of Educational Technology, U.S.Department of Education

*Download: http://www.ed.gov/sites/default/files/NETP-2010-final-report.pdf

•      U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Power On! New Took for Teaching and Learning, OTA-SET-379 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, September 1988)

*Download: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1d/9c/61.pdf

•      U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Linking for Learning: A New' Course for Education, OTA-SET-430 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, November 1989).

*Download: http://www.fas.org/ota/reports/8921.pdf

University/Organizational/Government Links:

•      University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professional development resources in distance education and e-learning: http://depd.wisc.edu/html/reports3.htm

•      WCET (Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications): http://www.wcet.info/2.0/index.php?q=Publications

•      EDUCAUSE Resource Center: http://www.educause.edu/resources

•      National Center for Education Statistics: http://www.nces.ed.gov/

Archived Reports (prior to 2010)

Educational Statistics

•      National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education. Educational Technology in Public School Districts: Fall 2008. Washington, DC.

*Download: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010003.pdf

•      National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education. Projection of Education Statistics 2017. Washington, DC.

*Download: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008078.pdf

•      National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education. Digest of Education Statistics 2007. Washington, DC.

*Download: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008022.pdf

•      National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education. Distance Education at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions: 2006-07. Washington, DC.

*Download: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009044.pdf

•      National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education. Technology-Based Distance Education Courses for Public Elementary and Secondary School Students: 2002-03 and 2004-05. Washington, DC.

*Download: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008008.pdf

Online Enrollment

•      The Sloan Consortium, Learning on Demand: Online Education in the United States, 2009

Download: http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/pdf/learningondemand.pdf

•      The Sloan Consortium, K-12 Online Learning: A 2008 Follow-up of the Survey of U.S. School District Administrators

Download: http://www.sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/pdf/k-12_online_learning_2008.pdf

•      The Sloan Consortium, Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States, 2008

Download: http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/survey/pdf/staying_the_course.pdf

•      The Sloan Consortium, Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning, 2007.

Download: http://www.sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/pdf/online_nation.pdf

Education Transformation/Innovation:

•      Johnson, L., Levine, A., & Smith, R. (2009). The 2009 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium

*Download: http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2009-Horizon-Report.pdf

•         Siemens, George & Tittenberger, P. (2009). Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning

*Download: http://umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies/cetl/HETL.pdf

•      Emerging Technologies for Learning, (2008). Becta.org

*Download: http://partners.becta.org.uk/upload-dir/downloads/page_documents/research/emerging_technologies08-2.pdf

•      Keeping Pace with K-12 online learning: Review of State-Level Policy and Practice (2008)

*Download: http://www.kpk12.com/downloads/KeepingPace_2008.pdf

•         U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement, Connecting Students to Advanced Courses Online, Washington, D.C., 2007.

*Download: http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/academic/advanced/coursesonline.pdf

•      EDUCAUSE (2005), Educating the Next Generation

Download: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/pub7101.pdf

•      U.S. Department of Commerce, VISIONS 2020: Transforming Education and Training Through Advanced Technologies, Washington, D.C., 2002.

*Download: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS34165