Online education is continuing to grow and evolve, especially in higher education. Earning an associate, bachelors or master’s degree can help workers increase their salaries, qualify for more desirable positions within a field or make a career pivot. People looking ...
More »What does higher education learning at scale look like? Opinion
We have seen sustained, rapid and substantial growth in rates of participation in global higher education and correspondingly in the size of university providers over the last 20 years. This has largely been to serve expansion in local domestic markets ...
More »Strengthening our knowledge economy is the key to recovery: opinion
“Australia's future growth and prosperity will be driven by our ability to generate and attract the 'best and brightest'.” This statement from the India Economic Strategy to 2035 report holds even greater weight now as we look to stimulate our ...
More »More people are choosing online learning: opinion
Over the last few years the focus on online classrooms and use of technology in further education has grown, with a rapid rise in the numbers of students wanting to study online. According to an annual report into online education ...
More »Will global online education ever take off?
In the wake of the dot.com bubble and the MOOC revolution, why haven’t more students taken up global online learning? Twenty years ago, at the beginning of the dot.com bubble, it seemed as though the advent of the internet would ...
More »TEQSA hindering online growth, says Barber
With an increasing number of people doing their courses via the internet a leading academic says we are risking losing students to overseas providers. Australia’s higher education quality regulator is obstructing advances in educational technologies and is jeopardising the nation’s ...
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