Ronnie Screwvala Quotes

Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.

I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.

Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.

Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast

In the field of higher ed, many have asked whether (or when) digital education will replace on-campus education. I wonder the opposite. Cinema never replaced theatre. TV didn't replace radio. I wonder how different digital education will be from classrooms, and where it will lead us.

It is inevitable that we will need digital technology to re-imagine learning beyond schooling. Even if it is only to inspire people to do more things physically.

I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.

Online education and technology are doubtless going to change how we learn in the years ahead. Remote learning is inexpensive and brings down the cost of near-universal access.

The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

Not everything that happens in an in-person classroom is currently replicated with an online course, and perhaps the experience will never be the quite the same. But there are new opportunities that online learning opens up that would have never been possible without this technology.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!

Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed.

I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach.

At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is.

By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

The information age is first and foremost an education age in which education must start at birth and continue throughout a lifetime.

There's a lot to be learned about how digital media, the ability to reach anybody any time, really transforms the peer interaction experience in education at large.

The Internet is an interesting tool to use to reach people with things that you might call 'Disney learning,'

With FutureLearn there are so many free courses and we like learning all the time.

The online education space, especially in higher education, is ripe for disruption.

There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.

Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.