by MEGAN O’NEIL, Glendale New-Press
It’s a remarkable world in which an 18-year-old in Mongolia can flash his intellectual prowess in an engineering class taught by a Stanford University professor. It would seem that for the highly-motivated Internet-connected individual, there is no limit. Still, as exciting as it is to watch the digital education race play out among the MITs and the Berkeleys of higher education, online learning has real-world limitations. That kid in Mongolia might outperform his peers in Palo Alto, but he won’t receive any credit for his efforts. He could ace every course in Stanford’s online catalog without a prayer for a diploma. (That will cost him tens of thousands of dollars and one hell of an admissions essay.)
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