Summary
A torrent of recent revolutionary developments are proving that online education will soon take over the physical classroom. In the past 30 days, the largest school system in the U.S. began offering credit for online courses, a major university began awarding degrees without ANY class time required, and many public universities are moving their courses online. The next president’s Secretary of Education will need an entire department dedicated to this huge transition.
For a long time, admissions-selective universities opposed giving credit for their popular online courses. MIT’s groundbreaking Open CourseWare project expanded from 50 free online courses to 1,700 courses through a worldwide consortium of universities in only three years.
Earlier this year, the California State University System (financially broken and largest education system worldwide), began offering online courses at low costs of $150 per course. Only three weeks after this announcement, The American Council on Education, a group of about 1,800 accredited universities, announced it was now also offering cheap online courses at three more schools, including Duke and the University of Pennsylvania.
The University of Wisconsin is offering a fully legitimate college degree without any class time required. As long as the students pass some tests and pay the online course fees, they can get a degree from this school from anywhere in the world.
Reason for choosing this article
I chose this article because part of the title, “online education”, and the article’s photo caught my eye. Many of my friends have switched to not only taking online classes during the breaks, but also during regular school sessions. I have tried online classes but I am a visual learner, so I appreciate physically meeting in class to learn. I understand why students are switching over to online education, but I didn’t realize this many people were switching.
Personal and Social Values at stake and ethical implications
This is causing an impact in our educations in that we’re acting quicker than we’re thinking. It can or should take years to assess a single course, let alone an entire restructuring of the education system. A review of research by the Department of Education shows that “students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.” I believe in this research in the fact that people like to study and learn at their own pace, and online courses allow this.
Credibility of its sources
TechCrunch is pretty reliable in that they have links to the original documents.
A torrent of recent revolutionary developments are proving that online education will soon take over the physical classroom. In the past 30 days, the largest school system in the U.S. began offering credit for online courses, a major university began awarding degrees without ANY class time required, and many public universities are moving their courses online. The next president’s Secretary of Education will need an entire department dedicated to this huge transition.
For a long time, admissions-selective universities opposed giving credit for their popular online courses. MIT’s groundbreaking Open CourseWare project expanded from 50 free online courses to 1,700 courses through a worldwide consortium of universities in only three years.
Earlier this year, the California State University System (financially broken and largest education system worldwide), began offering online courses at low costs of $150 per course. Only three weeks after this announcement, The American Council on Education, a group of about 1,800 accredited universities, announced it was now also offering cheap online courses at three more schools, including Duke and the University of Pennsylvania.
The University of Wisconsin is offering a fully legitimate college degree without any class time required. As long as the students pass some tests and pay the online course fees, they can get a degree from this school from anywhere in the world.
Reason for choosing this article
I chose this article because part of the title, “online education”, and the article’s photo caught my eye. Many of my friends have switched to not only taking online classes during the breaks, but also during regular school sessions. I have tried online classes but I am a visual learner, so I appreciate physically meeting in class to learn. I understand why students are switching over to online education, but I didn’t realize this many people were switching.
Personal and Social Values at stake and ethical implications
This is causing an impact in our educations in that we’re acting quicker than we’re thinking. It can or should take years to assess a single course, let alone an entire restructuring of the education system. A review of research by the Department of Education shows that “students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.” I believe in this research in the fact that people like to study and learn at their own pace, and online courses allow this.
Credibility of its sources
TechCrunch is pretty reliable in that they have links to the original documents.