The University of Illinois, with the support of its President and university board are backing instead of resisting a fopro/online approach to delivering a university education.
After seeing the ongoing success of the likes of University of Phoenix, the Big Ten school is considering to do the same with its liberal arts curriculum.
University of Phoenix and other fopros have focused on professional and vocational education with great success.
They also offer a high-quality, undergraduate-focused, outcomes-oriented curriculum.
UI wonders why they can't do the same with their curriculum.
Finally! A traditional university of this caliber recognizes the merits that a fopro/online education has.
Online education is cheaper, takes fewer faculty members, is measurable...and can surely be utilized to teach a broad spectrum of liberal arts classes.
It will be quite interesting to watch UI take on this new approach, to see how they deal with their professors and such.
I am confident the fopro models have much to offer the traditional universities.
What do you think?
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