Educational Leadership

As the online education marketplace continues to grow, colleges and universities need to carefully consider the role online education will play at their institution and do more to ensure these learners are integrated better into the campus community.

The online education marketplace is increasingly merging into higher education’s mainstream. More and more students are looking at the improving quality of online offerings and seeing that there are alternative pathways into academics that don’t require the massive opportunity cost of a full-time, residential program. In this interview, Chip Paucek shares his thoughts on the direction the online education marketplace is moving and reflects on the role online program management companies are playing—and will continue to play—in this evolution.