The Kept-Up Academic Librarian: Online Learning Is Transforming Higher Education

May 22, 2012

Online Learning Is Transforming Higher Education

In the coming decade, emerging technologies will thoroughly transform higher education. Although distance learning and computer-assisted education have been around since the 1960s, financial pressures are forcing institutions to develop aggressive online programs.When education goes online, how professors teach, what students learn and how institutions are structured will change significantly. In the past couple of years, traditional colleges and universities have designed their own programs in an effort to increase tuition income without expanding the physical plant. It remains to be seen whether this financial bet will pay off. Read more at:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-21/college-crackup-and-the-online-future.html#disqus_thread

May 22, 2012 8:16:12 AM | Distance Learning, Higher Ed Industry

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