Distance Learning

At UBTech, Jason Meneely, an assistant professor in the Department of Interior Design at the University of Florida, and Tawnya Means, the Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Assessment in the Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida, will discuss active learning and the paradigm shift from “information-era” to “creative-era” classrooms.

First, not all online learning can be characterized as failing its students.

Concordia University is now offering bachelor’s degree completion programs on Jackson Community College’s main Summit Township campus.

In September, Jennifer Hunt of Brown County, Ind., was awarded a bachelor’s degree from Thomas Edison State College in New Jersey without ever taking a Thomas Edison course.

As politicians and academics debate the future of higher education, it is already happening -- in dorm rooms, off-campus apartments and living rooms around the world.

Stanford University ratcheted up interest in online education when a pair of celebrity professors attracted more than 150,000 students from around the world to a noncredit, open enrollment course on artificial intelligence.

Educators knew the online revolution would eventually envelop the physical classroom, but a torrent of near-revolutionary developments in the past month are proving that change is coming quicker than anyone imagined.

The past few weeks have seen twists and turns in the ongoing debate about the quality and worth of online learning, and its role in the future of higher ed.