Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Online education threatens traditional colleges, IdeaFestival speaker says - Jere Downs, Courier-Journal

Colleges and universities that don’t have the stature of the 60 most prestigious research and Ivy League institutions are fast headed for “irrelevance and marginalization,” said Richard A. DeMillo, an expert in online learning who spoke at the IdeaFestival conference downtown Thursday. The proliferation of knowledge via online courses presents unparalleled challenges to colleges and universities, said DeMillo, an author and director of the Center for 21st Century Universities at the Georgia Institute of Technology. http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120920/BETTERLIFE03/309200095/idea-festival-higher-education-college-jere-downs-better-life