Very brief article!

http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/heres-a-snapshot-of-online-learning-in-2015/108514

The percentage of academic leaders who said online learning was critical to their institution’s mission dropped from 71 percent, in 2014 — the highest ever — to 63 percent.

The number of distance-education students increased at a slightly higher rate — 3.9 percent — from 2014 to 2015 than it did in the previous year.

The percentage of academic leaders who said their faculty members believe online education is legitimate remained very low — 29 percent.