Journal of Education and Human Development

Higher Education Online and the Developing World
Chris Impey

Abstract
Higher education has an enormous potential to provide economic opportunities and career advancement for people in developing countries. Technology and the Internet can help reach the billion people who will be looking for affordable access to college instruction in the next few decades. Two promising strategies for serving this population are a for-credit version of a massive open online classes (or MOOC), and a microcampus where American universities partner with universities in the developing world to offer dual degree programs. Although MOOCs started as free courses for lifelong adult learners the mechanisms now exist for them to offer transferrable college credit. The microcampus mechanism offers highly scalable college education using a flipped classroom model. Both ideas hold out the promise of helping to democratize higher education and spread its economic benefits more widely.

Full Text: PDF     DOI: 10.15640/jehd.v9n2a3