Source: Brownstone Institute
by Rob Jenkins
“In May of 2011, I wrote the following words in the Chronicle of Higher Education: ‘Online learning has become the third rail in American higher-education politics: Step on it and you’re toast.’ In so doing, I planted my foot squarely on that electrified third rail. … there is no denying that much has changed in the 13 years since I penned those fateful words. For one thing, back then, I had never taught an online class. And, of course, that was one of the accusations leveled at me by my detractors. I didn’t know what I was talking about, they insisted, having never ‘been in the trenches’ myself. Yet one needn’t be directly involved in an activity to look at numbers and see a problem.” (05/22/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/why-i-came-around-to-online-learning/