How did distance education change at colleges from 2019 to 2021? The U.S. Department of Education defines distance ed as “education that uses one or more technologies to deliver instruction to students who are separated from the instructor.” Those technoloiges support “regular and substantive interaction between the students and the instructor synchronously or asynchronously.”

This statistical snapshot, based on Education Department enrollment data for the fall of each year in this sample, provides a sector-by-sector look at overall distance-ed enrollment for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the enrollment in different types of distance education.

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