Saturday, February 1, 2014

Online Education Grows Up, And For Now, It’s Free

Majd Hijazi
February 1, 2014
Reading 3B
Summary #1

Online Education Grows Up, And For Now, It’s Free

            In the NPR article “Online Education Grows Up, And For Now, It’s Free” (2012), NPR Staff believe that online education is not a recent phenomenon but nowadays become more and more popular. After considering online education popularity, NPR Staff emphasize that there are more than 1.5 million students studying online. In addition, NPR Staff focus on students who have opportunities by online education to enroll good universities like Penn or Stanford from their place in India or Africa. Lastly, NPR Staff conclude that online education still has many improvements to works on it like cheating and the way of testing.


NPR Staff. (2012, September 30). Online Education Grows Up, And For Now, It’s Free. NPR NEWS. Retrieved from http://npr.org