[LINK] New Australian University Promoting On-line Degrees

[Roger Clarke]

On 9/8/2025 09:51, Tom Worthington wrote:
> Adelaide University, formed from the University of South Australia & 
> University of Adelaide, is promoting it's elearning. 
> https://adelaideuni.edu.au/study/online/

Isn't that just another economies-of-scale merger - to clear out lots of 
duplicate courses, academic staff, admin staff, and costs?


> The 'launch from anywhere" campaign appears on a bus shelter down the 
> road from the universities of Sydney, UTS & Notre Dame. It is a daring 
> move for one of Australia's leading universities to promote e-learning 
> and so close to major campuses. Would those a short bus ride from 
> established universities choose to study online, at a university 1,000km 
> away? 
> https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/08/new-australian-university-marketing-on.html

They need to get their bus-shelter messages into Google's catchment.

All I find for 'launch from anywhere", even limiting it to edu.au, and 
after all the rocket-related links, is:

Successful launch of 'anywhere, anytime learning' in 2019 with first two 
programs of UNSW Online
https://www.teaching.unsw.edu.au/successful-launch-anywhere-anytime


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