Online Learning Update

December 11, 2018

Imagining an Apple Store for Online Degrees

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:03 am

Lindsey McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed

Georgia Institute of Technology is considering creating brick-and-mortar “storefronts” for prospective and current students to sample its course offerings, listen to lectures and network. The effort is part of Georgia Tech’s plans to make its online degrees and professional education certificates more appealing to the nontraditional students of tomorrow, who the institution predicts will expect “flexible learning experiences.” “We know that students are happy with the online delivery, but we have found that they still have the desire, and in many cases the need, to connect physically with us,” said Rafael Bras, the university’s provost.

https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/11/26/coming-shopping-mall-near-you-georgia-tech

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