Distance Learning Yet to Hit Home
Sept 05, 2001
The point of this article by Wired is to emphasize the cost and difficulty of providing a quality online education. It's a theory that explains why startups are failing and why online learning has been slow to take hold. But there's more: Wired argues that the theory also explains why there will never be free online edcuation. It's an argument that sounds so reasonable and is so well (if implicitly) stated. But hasn't Wired heard of government funding? Or charitable foundations? Or economies of scale? There's another side to this story, so don't be too easily swept down the path toward high-priced learning as being the only option. By Kendra Mayfield, Wired News, September 5, 2001.
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