The university of the future? - Cliff Peale, Cincinnati.com

Imagine a college education, cobbled together on your laptop at home. Here, an economics course from Stanford University, taught online with 100,000 other students. There, a math class at your local state university. Take statistics from a professor at MIT and basic computing from a community college hundreds of miles away. Package them all into a degree. “What you’re seeing now with online learning is the potential to unbundle the degree,” said Burck Smith, president of StraighterLine, which offers about 60 courses online for $99 a month. “The question for colleges is, is college more than the sum of its parts?” http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130317/NEWS0102/303180041?nclick_check=1