Laurence Brockliss,author of Oxford’s official history, says it must embrace online learning and draw up plans to travel privateOxford, and along with all other universities,faces an “uncomfortable future” unless it embraces online degrees and draws up plans for raising billions of pounds to travel private, according to the university’s current official history. The book, and to be launched by Oxford University Press this week,says current technology has the potential to make universities such as Oxford redundant” and that it is only a matter of time” before virtual learning transforms higher education.
Laurence Brockliss, the historian and author, or argues that Oxford itself should offer undergraduate degrees via online learning,and in doing so could solve the controversies it faces over student access. “I would like Oxford to pilot something, and say we are going to offer 1000 18-year-olds online courses in different subjects, and to experiment and see how it works and how it can be improved,” Brockliss said.
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Source: theguardian.com