1. Will online education prevail?
Prepared by:
Valentín Montaña Mendoza

2. Online education:
The convergence
of technology and education

3. Online education is:
Opportunity for all
Accesibility
Flexibility
Better planning
Quality content
Lower costs
A balance between job and studies

4. The US is the
benchmark…
… for online education

5. The number of students enrolled
in at least one online course in
the US has risen from 1.6 million
in 2002 to 6.7 million in 2012
(Source: The Sloan Consortium)

6. 32% of US students
took at least…
… one online course in 2012
(Source: The Sloan Consortium)

7. Coursera is leading the online
education growth with over 2
million students enrolled up to
now

8. Over 65% of academic leaders believe
that online education is critical to their
institution’s long-term strategy
(Source: The Sloan Consortium)

9. 77% of academic leaders rated online
education as equal or better than
face-to-face education…
… but a small minority continue to
believe that online education is of an
inferior quality
(Source: The Sloan Consortium)

10. Only 30.2 percent of chief academic
officers believe their faculty accepts
the value and legitimacy of online
education
(Source: The Sloan Consortium)

11. But students believe that online education
is just as good as face-to-face education
and with further advantages
(flexibility, accessibility, low cost,
opportunity)

12. So what’s future of online education?

13. Online education will
continue to grow and to
gain market share from
face-to-face education

14. So what’s
future of
face-to-face
education?

15. The business model of face-to-
face education is costly and it
might not be viable in the event
of a drop in both student
enrollment and endowments

16. Will academic leaders
restructure their
face-to-face education
institutions to align them with
the changes observed in the
market?

17. “Once you see this pattern—a new story rearranging people’s sense
of the possible, with the incumbents the last to know—you see it
everywhere. First, the people running the old system don’t notice the
change. When they do, they assume it’s minor. Then that it’s a niche.
Then a fad. And by the time they understand that the world has
actually changed, they’ve squandered most of the time they had to
adapt.”
“It’s been interesting watching this unfold in music, books,
newspapers, TV, but nothing has ever been as interesting to me as
watching it happen in my own backyard. Higher education is now
being disrupted; our MP3 is the massive open online course (or
MOOC), and our Napster is Udacity, the education startup.”
Clay Shirky in Napster, Udacity, and the Academy.

18. The educational sector is becoming more complex
and dynamic, with new opportunities and new
threats.
It is likely that the end user will benefit from
lower or zero educational costs, and from new
methods of delivering educational content.
Online education is the driving force behind
these changes. It will certainly prevail.