I'd say this is the future of higher education, but its really the present. This describes the bulk of what you are currently taking online - and in class as well.
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We've kicked around the public policy process and discussed the factors that make them difficult to change, but rapid technological shifts can make policy changes very easy an very swift.
I'd like feedback from lecture students about whether this is a good or bad thing. Physical college instruction may be a relic. This has produced a disruption in the economics of higher education which will sooner or later impact its current design. The community college as we know it - and higher ed in general - might be on it's last legs.
What can a classroom instructor offer that a textbook - with online content - can't?
But its worth considering whether the use of prepackaged online classes is a cop out. I try to avoid this by creating my own material, but I can't pretend its nearly as slick as what a well funded textbook company - like Pearson - can produce.
