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Supporters of education through digital platforms can point to a host of issues solved by the flexibility and reasonable prices of online education. It helps working adults finish degrees. It can significantly cut down on student debt. Many courses even offer an education totally for free, if not the degree itself.
Yet for many, the stigma surrounding online education—that it’s low-quality and opportunistic—still holds strong. Do they have a point? Are some benefits of a class at a physical location completely unique and impossible to replicate online? Or do we just need a VR update to finally get that immersive collegiate experience?
Advise Me
Hopefully, you’ll get to see these questions asked at South by Southwest (SXSW) this year: One proposed panel hopes to address the specifics of online education. “Advise Me: Maximizing Digital Platforms” will discuss whether these digital versions of higher education are at the same quality as the physical version, but they’ll also chew over the scalability of digital education and whether it ultimately helps students succeed.
The panel is set to feature four guests: Nitzan Pelman, the CEO of ReUp Education; Bart Epstein, the CEO of Jefferson Education at the University of Virginia; Stephen Smith, the president of admissions at Hobsons; and Margaret Chung, the principal of the Arlington Career Center for Arlington County Public Schools.