Even earlier than the pandemic, big-name faculties and universities had been getting critical about on-line schooling. And that already-growing curiosity has ballooned since COVID-19 compelled just about each establishment to show quickly on-line.
However we’ve seen an fascinating pattern in how some state universities have determined to get into on-line studying—with an enormous splash. Right here’s the rising method: purchase an current on-line faculty that already has hundreds and even tens of hundreds of scholars.
Purdue College did it in 2017 when it bought the for-profit Kaplan College, which boasted about 32,000 college students, most of them on-line. The College of Arizona adopted the identical playbook in 2020 when it purchased for-profit Ashford College, which had 35,000 on-line college students on the time. And extra lately, the College of Massachusetts introduced that it will basically purchase management of Brandman College, a nonprofit establishment with roughly 10,000 on-line college students.
Why don’t these well-known universities simply construct their very own on-line campuses as a substitute of shopping for establishments with a really completely different college and mannequin? And what does it say about the way forward for on-line schooling, each at faculties and colleges?
We’re digging into these questions for this week’s EdSurge Podcast.
To assist do this, EdSurge talked with the brand new chancellor of UMass World, David Andrews. UMass World continues to be adjusting to its fusion final 12 months with Brandman College. Brandman was created as a derivative by Chapman College in 1958 to serve college students within the army and different nontraditional-age college students.
Andrews has been on the helm for just a few months, and he brings an fascinating perspective as somebody who has lengthy labored to make use of know-how to raised tailor schooling to particular person college students. He was most lately president of Nationwide College, and earlier than that was dean of schooling at Johns Hopkins College.
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