The College’s founders have more than 25 years combined expertise in education generally, and distance learning (also known as home study) in particular. Few distance-learning establishments have more experience at a “hands on” level; we’ve all been tutors and assessors in the sector for many years.
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Our motto is ‘Ornamentum Loginquitas Eruditio’ which translates to distinction in distance learning. The College is the UK’s fastest growing distance learning provider.
Cambridge Open College’s method of teaching is ‘supported open learning’, also known as ‘distance learning’ or ‘correspondence courses’.
According to Research and Markets, the online education landscape is set to become a $319 billion (£255 billion) industry by 2025.
The three major benefits of online learning compared to offline are: cost, convenience, and scale.
And scale – the ability of one incredible educator to reach an unlimited number of students – has massive potential for raising the quality of education as well.
But as often happens in the education space, cost may end up being the deciding factor.
It’s significantly cheaper to take an online course than it is to enrol on a traditional three or four-year college degree programme.
Also, satisfaction rates for people that take online courses are high.
In fact, BestColleges.com’s Online Education Trends Report states that 94% of students who take online courses are satisfied with the experience.
The vast majority of students that take online courses consider them worth their time.
This is why the “classroom” of the 21st century may be 100% online (via virtual reality or augmented reality).
Or a form of blended learning that’s primarily done online.
One clear example of the online learning trend is the online course platform Udemy.
Udemy is an online platform geared toward professionals who want to improve their skills.
It hosts thousands of courses across hundreds of different topics.
And as a business, it was last valued at over $2 billion.
Its growth has been meteoric.
Searches for e-learning platform Udemy came down from a big pandemic spike but are still up over 74% over the last 5 years.
More and more traditional accredited universities are offering online curricula as well.
MIT was a trailblazer here, offering pre-recorded world-class courses online for free with the MITx program (launched in 2011).
But lots of other colleges have now entered the online education space, including offering fully online bachelor’s degrees.
Still, more universities started offering live online courses as an emergency measure during the coronavirus crisis.
It’s only natural that a good portion of them will continue to offer the same in the future as well.
And because some of the most popular tools being used to conduct live online courses weren’t specifically designed for education – for example, Zoom – you can bet that there will be many more purpose-built tools available to educators soon.
In fact, there are dozens of edtech startups aiming to fill this gap in the market.
Many online courses are hosted on Zoom. But that may be changing with a number of online-first education platforms launching, including the system presented by Cambridge Open College, iLearnItEasy.
Attribution: 12 Emerging Education Trends (2024-2027), Josh Howarth, November 2023
Cambridge Open College has been providing distance learning, home study, open learning and correspondence courses since 2015.
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