Online Learning Update

May 10, 2016

Distance learning universities ‘must prove their relevance’

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:06 am

By Ellie Bothwell, Time Higher Education

Open and distance learning (ODL) universities must determine their “competitive advantage” rather than “parroting” that their value lies in convenience and flexibility, the director of the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education has claimed. Richard Garrett said that the rise of online education and the trend of traditional institutions becoming more versatile means that “the tide is against” ODL universities and the “onus” is on them to clarify their relevance. “I don’t think right now it’s clear enough from those institutions what their competitive advantage is, but there is more and more pressure for them to sort that out,” he told Times Higher Education. He suggested that their distinctive characteristics could be their size, expertise, student support or student outcomes.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/distance-learning-universities-must-prove-their-relevance

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