By Sean Scarpiello, Straub Foundation
Recently in Florida, government officials have come up with revolutionary idea for the education in their state. This goal is to create another university—Florida’s 13th overall. The idea at first sounds absurd, as the economy is still poor and universities cost millions of dollars to build and maintain. However, this new university will not cost millions of dollars, as it does not need new academic and administrative buildings, labs, a gym, and dorms. This is because this new university will be based solely on online learning. This idea is great for a number of reasons. First, this will act as one of the main pilot programs full online universities and education professionals will be able to draw from experiences here to improve online universities in the future. Furthermore, since this university is created and run by the state of Florida, we can expect that the credits gained by the students at the school will be recognized throughout the country.
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