Key points:
- While traditional higher-ed enrollments are down, the demand for online learning remains high
- The CHLOE 8 highlights a pivotal shift in how institutions navigate learning modalities
- See related article: Students are more satisfied and confident with online learning
The demand for online and hybrid learning continues to increase, and this demand is accompanied by a decrease in demand for a return to pre-pandemic in-person learning opportunities, according to the Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) report.
The eighth edition of the report, or the CHLOE 8, comes from Quality
Matters and Eduventures Research, a division of Encoura and surveyed hundreds of chief online officers (COOs) at higher-ed institutions.
While this growing demand for online learning peaked during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when emergency learning was at its highest, CHLOE 8 reveals that the demand continues to gain traction in today’s post-pandemic era and, in fact, has most likely not peaked.
“The CHLOE 8 report captures the dynamic, uncertain moment after the ‘emergency remote learning’ of the pandemic,” says Richard Garrett, CHLOE Co-Director and Eduventures Chief Research Officer, Encoura. “The crisis has faded but experience and expectations have changed.”
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