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Distance Education by Postsecondary Faculty
Table S47-1.  Standard errors for the percentage of full- and part-time instructional faculty and staff who taught distance education courses and average number of courses taught, by employment and distance education status, rank, and type of institution: Fall 2003

  Percentage who taught distance
education course
  Average number of credit and
noncredit courses taught
Faculty rank and type of institution Full-time Part-time   Did not teach
distance education
Taught distance
education

    Total 0.25 0.39   0.02 0.08
Full or associate professor 0.37 1.59   0.03 0.10
  Public doctoral 0.51 2.47   0.04 0.17
  Private not-for-profit doctoral 0.54 1.75   0.08 0.55
  Public master’s 1.15 6.19   0.05 0.25
  Private not-for-profit master’s 1.03 6.89   0.09 0.19
  Private not-for-profit bachelor’s 0.89 5.06   0.08 0.17
  Public associate’s 2.38 3.70   0.10 0.21
Assistant professor, instructor, or lecturer 0.42 0.50   0.03 0.14
  Public doctoral 0.57 1.13   0.04 0.22
  Private not-for-profit doctoral 0.66 1.31   0.08 0.45
  Public master’s 1.24 1.07   0.05 0.22
  Private not-for-profit master’s 2.07 1.60   0.08 0.84
  Private not-for-profit bachelor’s 1.27 1.79   0.08 0.53
  Public associate’s 1.33 0.75   0.06 0.16

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:04), previously unpublished tabulation (November 2005).

 
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