Online Learning Update

March 28, 2011

Does online education put traditional universities at a ‘grave risk’?

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

by Dennis Carter, eCampus News

A university’s stockpile of faculty members with Ph.D.s soon could be irrelevant if online learning continues its rapid growth and provides flexibility for students of every age, said Clayton Christensen, an authority on how innovative technologies affect businesses and economies. “The way you define goodness at a university” used to be finding the most educated researchers and teachers to create and teach course material. But with the world “overcome by the amount of knowledge that can be taught” in the digital age, Christensen said, that old model is losing relevance. He said “the traditional way of delivering knowledge” is standardized and inflexible, whereas online college classes allow—even encourage—customization that appeals to a wider audience of students, especially as college degrees become a requisite for career success.

http://www.ecampusnews.com/technologies/does-online-education-put-traditional-universities-at-a-grave-risk/

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