In fact, they can be far more expensive than a degree in the same field from your local community college, which probably offers higher-quality instruction.
Digital learning for the K through 12 market has opened up a world of potential, vastly expanding our chances of truly democratizing access to qualityinstruction and learning opportunities worldwide.
MOOCs offered by leading university faculty through platforms such as Coursera demonstrate that a single educator can deliver sophisticated content and high qualityinstruction to thousands if not tens of thousands of students worldwide simultaneously.
The quality of instruction online is uneven, but much of it is superb, and the golf magazines, after considerable scrambling, have done well by their tip franchises.
The World Economic Forum ranked the United States at a mediocre 52nd among 139 nations in the quality of its university math and science instruction in 2010.