Online Learning Update

September 27, 2011

Why You Should Root for College to Go Online

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 1:05 pm

by Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring, The Atlantic

The leading universities and colleges have seen the potential in this kind of this mix of online and face-to-face learning, and they are investing in it via internal development rather than external acquisition. As the technology matures and the proper balance and integration with the classroom experience emerges, Harvard and its peers will be leaders in online education, just as they are in traditional instruction and scholarship. For them, online learning will be a sustaining innovation, rather than a disruptive one. The real disruptive threat is to the hundreds of institutions that emulate the elite few at the top. Many of them lack the prestige to hold off for-profit competition and the money that the elites can spend on online curriculum. But their challenge isn’t fundamentally one of money: online tutorials don’t have to be expensive to be effective, as the open-to-all Khan Academy has shown. The much greater challenge for traditional universities and colleges is changing their teaching traditions.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/why-you-should-root-for-college-to-go-online/244834/

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