Chancellor Block is quoted in a Wall Street Journal piece on online education:
...If massive open online courses, or MOOCs, become more prevalent “all
of a sudden you have a new reverse digital divide,” Gene Block, the
chancellor of the University of California in Los Angeles, said at the WSJD Live global technology conference. He said that students from wealthy families will continue to send
their children to residential four-year colleges, where they learn in
the classroom, and in interactions among students and between students
and faculty. But community colleges or other non-residential
higher-educational institutions are at risk of getting usurped by the
MOOCs, he said...
Full story at http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/28/are-online-courses-democratizing-education-or-killing-colleges/
Note: Inside Higher Ed has a faculty survey on attitudes toward online ed (which tend to be skeptical). You can access it by following the link at:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/online-ed-skepticism-and-self-sufficiency-survey-faculty-views-technology
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