One Hundred and Seventy Four Thousand

FOR THE FIRST TIME....... more people have paid tuition for an online education than for a traditional campus education. 

2024 was a tipping point. Global High Speed Internet, along with services like Zoom, GoTo, WebEx, Adobe and others have changed the world of education forever. 

PURDUE UNIVERSITY has become PURDUE UNIVERSITY ONLINE. 

PENN STATE has become PENN STATE WORLD CAMPUS. 

Yes, there will still be classic on-campus education. Yes, there will still be dorm rooms and food plans. And yes there will be on-campus SPORTS. March Madness is right around the corner, right?

Highest-Viewed College Football Games Of the Past

Georgia vs. Texas: 16,630,000 viewers - SEC Championship

Tennessee vs. Ohio State: 14,680,000 viewers - College Football Playoff

Indiana vs. Notre Dame: 13,390,000 viewers - College Football Playoff

But as for pure education - for all things higher learning - lifelong learning - career advancement - all things 'remote' and CLOUD seems to have taken the lead. And I don't think it is going back to the old ways anytime soon. 

The (now) GlobalDLA.org was one of the first to promote Harvard HBX many years ago. The concept of getting a degree from Harvard without ever stepping foot in Massachusetts was beyond most people's comprehension. Today in 2025 it's expected. 

And in 2025 'Certificate Programs' are expected to outpace classic degree programs. When someone asks "where should I go to school?" the answer is starting to look like "go to all of them." With each passing day, more and more areas of study are becoming available to students from anywhere in the world. And, major corporations have successfully launched their own internal online universities, or partnering with colleges to teach things like AI, or Cybersecurity or other areas of study that are in high demand. 

See, it is not just the students - it is the employers that are the future homes for these students. WHERE you went to school is becoming less and less important. WHAT you have learned, and your level of domain expertise - that is what is really what matters. Can you do the job? Can you do the work? Let's find out. 

As of this Sunday Blog, there are 174,000+ K-20 Schools serviced by the (now) GlobalDLA.org. That is K-20 which covers Graduate Schools, Medical Schools, etc. and not just Kindergarten through College. So that means that PURDUE is competing against UCONN who is competing against RUTGERS who is competing against HARVARD who is competing against PRINCETON who is competing against... well, you get it. If you pay tuition to attend THIS school or to attend THAT school, you're not going to pay tuition to the others. It becomes a zero sum game. 

And the classrooms in the clouds are scalable. When I went to PURDUE some 46 years ago, Lecture Hall EE129 was one of the largest on campus, holding several hundred students. 2025: the PURDUE UNIVERSITY ONLINE lecture hall is as big as an audience watching College Football on TV. 

Imagine trying to grade 16,630,000 Final Exams. I guess they will have AI bots for that, right? In 2025 I invite you to join the (now) GlobalDLA.org as Lifelong Learning is here to stay. 

From anywhere in the world. 

Join the GlobalDLA.org and THRIVE in 2025