The AP picture here shows students protesting tuition hikes who, you can be confident, all have mobile phones in their pockets. The photo is from a Yahoo! News article called The Secret Reasons for Tuition Hikes.
Students pay hundreds of dollars every year for printed textbooks. The technology is well established to provide textbooks on their mobile devices. Doing so would give kids a significant offset from tuition hikes. Colleges can make administrative savings by providing access to services through the devices. If instruction continues to decline in quality while analog services are funded, it is likely students will be going to their mobiles for instruction too.
This bleak outlet described by Yahoo! will be replaced by cost savings and richer instruction in the mobile future for learning:
Why has college tuition been rising so high and fast? Will college costs ever drop back to more affordable levels?
Those questions have been frustrating parents and students for years. A new report provides some surprising answers that will, unfortunately, probably only frustrate and anger them even more. At public colleges, tuition has generally been driven up by rising spending on administrators, student support services, and the need to make up for reductions in government subsidies, according to a report issued by the Delta Cost Project, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C.
In some cases, such as at community colleges (which educate about half of the nation’s college students), tuition has risen while spending on classroom instruction has actually fallen. At public colleges especially, the current economic troubles will likely only accelerate the trend of rising prices and classroom cutbacks, says Jane Wellman, the author of the report. After analyzing income and spending statistics that nearly 2,000 colleges reported to the federal government, Wellman concludes: “Students are paying more and, arguably, getting less in the classroom.”
