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Georgia Tech's Center for 21st Century Universities Encourages Online Education
Credit: Abby Jones / Daily Sundial
Colleges around the world will have to change their business and credentialing models to adapt to emerging technology if they want to maintain their importance, according to computer science professors at Georgia Institute of Technology's Center for 21st Century Universities.
Online learning is continuing to grow and develop within higher education, and it may be changing the value of a college degree, according to ongoing research at the center.
"What it means is that the university needs to rethink what it's doing, how it's doing it," says Paul Baker, a professor at Georgia Tech, in a recent Q&A with Chronicle.com. "And how it innovates in a way of surviving in the face of this."
There will always be people who need to go to a physical university, but online education offers another option, says Kamiran Badrhkan, deputy dean of The Tseng College, Northridge, CA. Those who stand to gain include people who live in remote areas with no college nearby, for example.
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