Many large university institutions are now starting to offer
free or almost free full courses such as Harvard, MIT and Berkeley teaming up
to form edX.
Other universities offering open education are prestigious private universities
such as Stanford, Princeton, Duke, Johns Hopkins, the University of Pennylvania, and Caltech, as well as
notable public universities including Tsinghua, Peking, Edinburgh, University of Michigan, and University of Virginia.
Open
education has been called the biggest change in the way people learn since the
printing press. Despite favorable studies on effectiveness, many people
may still desire to choose traditional campus education for social and cultural
reasons.
Many
open universities are working to have the ability to offer students
standardized testing and traditional degrees and credentials.
The
conventional merit-system degree is currently not as common in open education
as it is in campus universities, although some open
universities do already offer conventional degrees such as
the Open University in the United Kingdom.
Presently, many of the major open education sources offer their own form of
certificate. Due to the popularity of open education, these new kind of
academic certificates are gaining more respect and equal "academic value"
to traditional degrees.
Out
of 182 colleges surveyed in 2009 nearly half said tuition for online courses
was higher than for campus-based ones.
A
recent meta-analysis found that online and blended educational approaches had
better outcomes than methods that used solely face-to-face interaction.
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