Online Learning Update

September 7, 2011

Internet to Bring Down the Sky-High Cost of Higher Ed, Experts Say

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

By Blake Snow, Fox News

Call it better learning through technology — and cheaper. As college and university classrooms around the country fill with students facing mind-numbing tuition, free online classes are filling up too — and their rising number threatens to destroy the current model that has student loans soaring and parents feeling the bite, experts told FoxNews.com. “The current system makes little sense,” argues Henry Eyring, author of The Innovative University. “A student pays one amount regardless of credit load or type of course being taken, and the university has no financial incentive to help the student get a good grade,” he told FoxNews.com.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/03/stanford-yale-and-oxford-educations-are-free-online/

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