A call to industry: get in the (online education) game

Published March 20, 2019 This content is archived.

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An article published by TCIE Executive Director Timothy Leyh on LinkedIn calls on industry to partner with academia and contribute funds toward the development of online education. His call is based on reflections of a visit from Nelson Baker of the Georgia Institute of Technology, which offers three online master's degrees as a result of corporate monies. 

"Georgia Tech is a state-funded university just like UB, with comparable challenges related to financial restrictions," Leyh writes. "Therefore, industry investment is an absolute game-changer in constructing parallel, online education programs at scale."   

Read the article here.