Online Learning Update

June 28, 2012

Online Learning Credentialing: The Real Tsunami

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

by William Durden, Inside Higher Ed

Imagine the moment when these completion exams permit a person to assemble learning from a variety of academic institutions and life experiences to complete a degree. At that moment, the monopoly of institutions over source and cost loosens, and the student gains control of how knowledge is to be gained and at what price. At that moment, the sources of learning are severed from credentialing. At that moment, American higher education is radically changed.

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/06/11/essay-changes-may-most-threaten-traditional-higher-education

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