私醫聯招 英文歷屆試題｜第 685 題

The advent of online education in the first decade of the 21st century was the result of and a response to a number of factors that were both internal and external to the field of higher education. Traditional  (31)  institutions, especially those that were privately  (32) , raised tuition rates far in excess of the rate of inflation. This,  (33)  a larger demand of postsecondary education for working adults, helped facilitate the introduction of online learning. However, it should be acknowledged that the relative simplicity of using the Internet as a platform, as well as its cost-effectiveness, was seized upon by  (34)  in the private sector. Online education is largely in the hands of for-profit companies. The question now becomes whether the  (35)  of higher education is worth the price of removing it from nonprofit, research-based universities.