Disrupting College: How Disruptive Innovation Can Deliver Quality and Affordability to Postsecondary Education.
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Online learning appears to be this technology enabler for higher education and indeed helps explain much of the rapid growth in the up-start for-profit higher education sector over the last 10 years, even as many colleges and universities have struggled financially and had to cut back.
Abstract
. . . “Online learning appears to be this technology enabler for higher education. It is for the first time disrupting higher education -and indeed helps explain much of the rapid growth in the up-start for-profit higher education sector over the last 10 years, even as many colleges and universities have struggled financially and had to cut back. Roughly 10 percent of students in 2003 took at least one online course. That fraction grew to 25 percent in 2008, was nearly 30 percent in the fall of 2009, and we project it will be 50 percent in 2014.1”