A New Distance Ed Posse Comes Calling on Washington

Bernard Luskin writes, in this Executive Briefing from The Greentree Gazette, of a recent meeting in Washington called the "President's Forum:

Laura Palmer Noone is the former president of the University of Phoenix [and once a SCUP plenary speaker]. She helped set the stage for a confab in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in January. The meeting place was strategically chosen by representatives of online learning organizations . . . . Noone set the meeting’s tone by speaking intelligently about the growing interest and participation of adults in new definitions of time, place and money in higher education. Online learning is visible and growing throughout all of higher education. It’s a topic on the agenda of every education and investment conference. Three clearly visible trends have emerged: (1) The growing involvement of for-profit colleges and universities; (2) Rapidly growing adult online enrollments; and (3) Newly spawned complexities and potential intra-industry feuds.