Online Learning Quotes

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Online learning can be a lifeline to those who have obstacles, such as geographical distances or physical disabilities.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

The online credential, the online certificate is very different from an on campus certificate. And we really believe that online learning and the EdX platform and the EdX portal, these are ways in which - you can think of them as a rising tide that's going to lift all boats whether for students worldwide or on our campuses.

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like,'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold.

Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.

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.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.