Online Learning Update

by Robert Patterson’s Weblog

The old man behind the curtain is now seen clearly by many who have paid all that money for an expensive degree and have joined the great unemployed + debt. Here is how James Carmine sees it. The costs of getting a post secondary education are going to drop way below what a bricks and mortar university can offer. I think that online Ed will do to the university what Craigslist did to papers. “Professor Racks are coming: “GeekProfs” whose proprietary classes are stored and launched into the cloud from places like Web Hosting Geeks. The GeekProfs will be independent credentialed professors who use web sites designed for them by professional web designers. That is what the new much cheaper university classes and majors will look like.

http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2012/10/the-education-bubble-is-about-to-pop-craiglist-comes-to-campus.html