Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Sunday, April 25, 2004
For-Profit Career Education Gives Universities Growth Lesson - James Flanigan, LA Times

...And yet, for all the inherent differences between for-profit colleges and major universities, the latter is clearly learning lessons from the former. USC, for instance, is talking up the prospect of using the Internet to foster long-distance learning. "These technological developments," says Provost Lloyd Armstrong, "provide new means for delivering higher education." Similarly, Harvard University is looking to online education as a way to give out more mortarboards without having to invest in bricks and mortar.


 



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