Online Learning Update

November 25, 2010

The Fourth Online-Learning Revolution

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:01 am

by J. Bradford DeLong, Grasp Reality with Both Hands

Today we are in the middle of a fourth online-learning revolution. To properly understand and manage it, however, we need to understand something crucial about the third online-learning revolution. What is it about the institution of the university that allowed it to survive the third online-learning revolution? For the fourth will be a catastrophic bust and distance-learning will die—unless we figure out how to replicate online those features of the university which kept it alive in the post-Gutenberg years after the third online-learning revolution.

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/11/the-fourth-online-learning-revolution.html

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