Too bad the Canadian post-secondary is years behind when it comes to online learning and offering low cost programs not only to Canadians but the world.

I said years behind, but the Canadian public education K to 12 education system is in the ice age when it comes to online learning.

I am not at all impressed on the online learning options that the public K to 12 has to offered. The majority of it made in house, and not at all friendly to the users. Difficult to manipulate their online learning. For example, in a classroom does a teacher give a test, one question at a time? No, the test has two to three pages of questions that allows the student to flipped back and forth. But on the online version,  one starts at question one, and once finish, you cannot go back to correct, and you moved unto the question number 2. The ability is lost to look at the whole test, and decide which questions will be done first, and no student can edit and recheck their answers.

However with Georgia Tech, it will certainly be a disruption in the Canadian education system. Probably quite a few Canadians may very well take this route, and forget about the more expensive route of attending a Canadian university. At a cost of $7000, it be tempting for many students of computer science.

Online learning opens up opportunities for all classes/income levels of students.  It’ll be a different world, where education will be universally available; not just to those who can afford it, or who come from certain neighbourhoods.  We’ll see shifts in the class system as well, because it will make it more fluid.  This will be way better than rooting for the Maple Leafs, and not as disappointing :-(.