by NIU Today
Northern Illinois University President John G. Peters briefed trustees on “distributed learning,” a major ingredient of Vision 2020 that typically refers to online course delivery but also includes other modes such as videoconferencing. “Our goal is to provide an affordable way to meet this need and increase delivery of educational units to our region using distributed learning five-fold by 2020, from the current 16,000 credit hours to more than 81,000 credit hours,” Peters said. Vision 2020 grant seed money will be utilized in developing either a home-grown model or partnering for a turn-key, revenue share model to achieve this goal. Whatever the approach, competing institutions that already scale online delivery to meet the diversity of potential student users are growing in appeal.
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