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Originally Posted by lcjjdnh
First, UVa has not refused to enter online education. Indeed, it has had many online programs. And these smaller programs--say for professionals like nurses and teachers--are the ones likely to be successful online.
Second, if it's true that education moves online more broadly--a claim of which I'm highly skeptical given most of the beenfits to a degree come from signaling and exclusion--most universities will no longer exist, whether they move now or later. Why does UVa need to have an Intro to Econ lecture if Yale, MIT and Stanford already have one? The market for online education--if it ever exists on a broad scale--will have a much different competitive model, and there's really nothing UVa or any other school can really do about that.
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i missed this post earlier.
Education will be shifting to online learning and the shift has already started. Schools will eventually partner up with each other to offer courses together, offset by low costs and efficient use of technology (skype, teacher salaires get cut) and the credits will be shared between schools to earn a degree. The current model is outdated, will be replaced, and greed is a major force for the change.
Its already happening and if schools dont jump in and start exploring, they will lose out on whats coming and wont be around.
Here is a prime example of what more than a few school are doing now (for free) and how they will turn this into profit to change higher education. Guess who is in there???
Coursera.org