E-Colleges & Free Online Courses Likely to Raise Achievement

by Mike Smith · 2009-09-03 08:22:00 UTC
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We recently learned that online lessons may be a better method of teaching than pure classroom interaction, especially useful for adults. The Education Department is now planning to create and open up online courses for the nation's 1,200 community colleges. new courses will allow student to receive online free lessons, and allow them to learn basic skills for jobs. The Christian Science Monitor hopes that "the rapid rise of e-learning may finally help burst the bubble in rising tuition costs" going on to explain that the number of university students worldwide has increased by nearly half to 153 million in the last decade. For the US to stay ahead, the DoE is rightly opening up free higher-education, helping to ensure citizens aren't priced out by tuition cost, can get a degree, and stay on terms with the rest of the world.

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Mike Smith is associate editor at Change.org.
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