Online education a “disruptive innovator” in the higher ed landscape

Posted on April 20, 2011 by trendadmin

Louis Soares, director of postsecondary education at the Center for American Progress stated recently that enrollment gains at online higher education programs, including The University of Phoenix and Kaplan University, suggest that online education has the potential to be a “disruptive innovator” in higher education, in much the same way that cellular phones “disrupted the land line-based model.”