For-Profits Move Ahead With Online Learning Technology

The future of online education at these prestigious schools won't involve abandoning the traditional classroom. But students will spend less time in the classroom, in favor of learning through personalized tutorials such as those produced by Carnegie Learning. The leading universities and colleges have seen the potential in this kind of this mix of online and face-to-face learning, and they are investing in it via internal development rather than external acquisition. The real disruptive threat is to the hundreds of institutions that emulate the elite few at the top. Read more at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/why-you-should-root-for-college-to-go-online/244834/