Online education is a “disrupting innovation” that will transform higher education, argues paper by the Innosight Institute and the Center for American Progress.
Online learning can enable learning to happen in a variety of contexts, locations, and times; it allows for a transformation of curriculum and learning.
. . . This emerging disruptive innovation also allows for an escape from the policies that focus on credit hours and seat time to one that ties progression to competency and mastery. Online learning courses can easily embed actionable assessments and allow students to accelerate past concepts and skills they understand and have mastered and instead focus their time where they most need help at the level most appropriate for them. Time is naturally a variable in online learning, so these courses can instead hold outcomes constant—and outcomes will be a more appropriate measure for judging students and institutions.
Old policies will not apply, according to Innosight.
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