(PRWEB) July 16, 2012

FindOnlineEducation.com, an online education portal for students around the world seeking the latest in free and affordable online education course information, tools and in-depth research, today released its list of 16 People Changing the Landscape of Online Education Forever.

These visionaries are helping to disrupt - for the better - the online higher education model around the world. This allows millions of people to revolutionize and transform the way they see and access online material, and ultimately interact with the course. Right now, more than six million Americans are enrolled in online degree programs across the U.S., and their numbers are growing daily.

Anant Agarwal, President of edX, the not-for-profit joint venture between Harvard and M.I.T, recently described the potential of the online education model this way: For students around the world...this is the single biggest change in education since the printing press... and, ...Our (edX) goal is to educate a billion people around the world.

Read more about these 16 People Changing the Landscape of Online Education Forever and youll know why the revolution is on:

1. Sal Khan 2. Charles Thornburgh 3. Sebastian Thrun 4. Eren Bali 5. Gagan Biyani 6. Daphne Koller 7. Andrew Ng 8. John Hennessy 9. Walter Lewin 10. Richard DMillo 11. Clayton Christensen 12. George Siemens 13. Anant Agarwal 14. Jan Philipp Schmidt 15. Shai Reshef 16. Richard Braniuk

These outstanding leaders are driving the innovative efforts to bring online education to millions of people around the world at a low cost - sometimes even free of charge! Some experts believe that with the help of leaders like these, online education could eventually put substantial pressure on traditional, campus-based degree programs. This could lead to lower costs for everyone, and more of an emphasis on certificate-based job training, rather than traditional degrees.

To read detailed profiles of these great 16 innovators and what they are doing to change online education, please see the list at: FindOnlineEducation.com and see their latest Infographic titled, Infographic: The Online Education Revolution.

About FindOnlineEducation.com

FindOnlineEducation.com (FOE.com) is a portal for students around the world seeking the latest in free and affordable online education course information, tools and in-depth research. At FOE, you can learn about courses, schools, rankings, and read countless articles that focus on the latest topics of interest in online education. More at http://findonlineeducation.com/

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