How do you make free education commercially viable, asks TAG Assessment managing director Matt Wingfield.
It can be argued that the concept of distance learning has been around since the early 19th century, when students from Australia were granted overseas access to study a number of courses from prestigious UK universities such as the London School of Economics and the University of London. In more recent times, it has been the UK’s Open University that has ultimately shaped the modern distance learning approach that we know today; by combining teaching videos and content publishing alongside…