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What the experts say about online education |
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| "The Internet has created many markets where none existed before. Higher education might be the biggest, most culture-transforming new market of them all. The result will be a true free market in higher education that will turn the world of colleges and universities upside down." | | | David Gelernter, Professor of Computer Science at Yale | | (Writing in Forbes, November 28, 2005) |
| | "(Peter) Drucker also told us to expect enormous changes that will come in higher education, thanks to the rise in satellites and the Internet. ‘Thirty years from now big universities will be relics. Universities won’t survive. It is as large a change as when we first got the printed book.’ It will be news to most college presidents and a lot of alumni that ‘higher education is in deep crisis. Colleges won’t survive as residential institutions. Today’s buildings are hopelessly unsuited and totally unneeded.’ All this from a life-long academic." | | | Steve Forbes | | The Wall Street Journal, November 15, 2005 |
| | "Fixing universities? That depends on what you want them to do. As a place for young people to spend four years or so mixing and mingling, watching a little football, no, higher education is not broken. For learning and research? The times do need some changing. Simply put, the enormous amount of resources we put into bricks and mortar learning to bring students to colleges and universities to sit at the feet of professors is about as useful as monks copying books by hand. Just as technology put the monks out of the hand-made book business, technology has the potential to dismantle and reconfigure universities as we know them." | | | Bill Kerney, director, Teaching American History | | Commenting March 18, 2005 in a symposium titled Can Universities Be Fixed? (FrontPageMagazine.com) |
| | "Online delivery is the trigger for this growth (in continuing adult education), but the demand for lifetime education stems from profound changes in society, in simplest terms, people who are already highly educated and high achievers increasingly sense that they are not keeping up." | | | Peter Drucker | | Forbes, May 15, 2000 |
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