Other sources included additional student fees and external grants. The number of graduate Higher Education programs offering distance education courses continues to be relatively small. Distance education courses were most cited in Higher Education programs that were housed at Research I institutions. One problem with the response rates in this study was that the proportion responding in each Carnegie Classification does not reflect the true proportion of those programs in the total population of HEPs. This under or over representation of some of the HEPs limited the ability to generalize the findings to any one type of institutional program.
Interactive TV remains the dominant method of distance course delivery.
Teaching via interactive TV can be implemented without a dramatic change in faculty delivery methodology. However, interactive TV continues to be a viable method of delivering courses to students at a distance. Other methods of delivery mentioned in this study suggest that a few faculty are beginning to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to implement other forms of technology-based instruction. Web-based instruction appeared to be in the early stages of formulation at several of the surveyed institutions. The overwhelming majority reported distance courses as part of their regular load.