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Our Mission
Mission Statement
IDEBP Mission
The International Distance Education Benchmark Project was established to promote student access, engagement, and success in distance learning. Its mission is to provide postsecondary education institutions the opportunities to share and benchmark data to increase the transparency and facilitate best practices in delivering exclusively distance education credentials to undergraduate and graduate students.
IDEBP strives to achieve its mission by:
- Working collaboratively with the international higher education community, distance education providers, regional and national accreditation agencies, programmatic accreditation agencies, and federal, state and international regulators;
- Building awareness of and support for exclusively distance education enrollments at the certificate, associates, bachelors, masters, and doctorate level to students, states, accreditors, institutional leaders, and other stakeholders;
- Collecting de-identified data on students, faculty, and curriculum engaged in exclusively distance education and advancing efforts to ensure international alignment on core benchmark elements; and
- Participating actively in cooperative efforts of states and the larger international higher education community to improve access, engagement and success through exclusively distance education.