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For years, education reform has centered on K through 12. Now both of you want to center
some attention on higher education and, Mr. Speaker, let's go to you again. You are very
interested in online education and what it might mean. We've got so many students that
we want to educate and online education, in your view, may be a way we can do it without
bricks and mortar.
Well, I don't think we'll ever completely replace bricks and mortar universities but
I believe that the way people are learning and the way they access information is dramatically
changing, and there is what I call a tsunami coming to the education system as we know
it in higher education, and technology is allowing us to leverage the high quality education
that we have and making it accessible to everybody and I just believe that while every university
currently has an online degree program, most of them have those programs but they're there
to make money and offer online degrees. But the truth is, if you were to ask them most
of them could produce a lot of those degrees for a whole lot less money than what they're
charging and the state of Florida has decided it's gonna substitute a traditional student
to the tune of $40,000 or $50,000 but we don't subsidize the student who wants to take the
same class online, and I just think we should learn how to make our education system more
accessible and more affordable and also give it to people in the comfort of their own home
if they so choose to do it there, and I think it's gonna change the way we educate our kids
and I want Florida to be on the front end of that reform, not on the back end.