{"id":74105,"date":"2021-02-11T08:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T13:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=74105"},"modified":"2021-02-11T08:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T13:22:37","slug":"public-colleges-are-going-after-adult-students-online-are-they-already-too-late-gardner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/02\/11\/public-colleges-are-going-after-adult-students-online-are-they-already-too-late-gardner\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Colleges Are Going After Adult Students Online. Are They Already Too Late? [Gardner]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Public Colleges Are Going After Adult Students Online. Are They Already Too Late?<\/strong><\/a> — from chronicle.com by Lee Gardner<\/p>\n

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But competing with the established national players in online education presents a tall order. The so-called\u00a0mega<\/a>–<\/a>universities<\/a>\u00a0have a huge head start and deep pockets, two advantages public universities are unlikely to overcome easily, if at all.
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\nMega-universities have spent more than a decade building and honing well-funded and sophisticated operations that function on a scale few start-ups can hope to match. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year marketing themselves nationwide to students.<\/p>\n

Mega-universities have also developed recruitment and admissions operations designed to make things as easy as possible for working adults to enroll.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Public Colleges Are Going After Adult Students Online. Are They Already Too Late? — from chronicle.com by Lee Gardner Excerpts: But competing with the established national players in online education presents a tall order. The so-called\u00a0mega–universities\u00a0have a huge head start and deep pockets, two advantages public universities are unlikely to overcome easily, if at all. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,115,57,37,36,35,3,74,7,510,505,199,239,62,20,145,206,321,214,367,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-learning","category-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-future","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-leadership","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","category-strategy","category-traditional-tradition","category-trends","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors","category-vision-possibilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74107,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74105\/revisions\/74107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}