Improving accessibility for all learners, particularly those with cognitive or physical disabilities, is now a critical priority as higher education undergoes rapid transformation.
Since its peak in the second half of 2021 and the first half of 2022, total funding for OPMs has declined 97% up through the first half of 2024, according to Validated Insights.
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The report's authors noted that this gap may vary—or even be wider—at institutions that do not stress discipline as intensely as West Point. Also: what does this presidential candidate's bid to cut "unnecessary" college degree mean for you?
Ninety percent of online learners are pursuing a credential for career-related reasons, and they're willing to enroll further from where they live to find the right fit, according to a new report from Risepoint.
"The ability to connect with another human to bounce ideas off of is going to become even more important when an increasing percent of the internet is auto generated," says Casey Clark, a dean at Western Governors University who recently earned his coaching certification.
The challenge lies not in the medium but in how it's structured. Institutions can do more to foster the essential communal aspects of traditional learning to combat the loneliness of remote learning.
