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One of the great virtues of a liberal arts education is its demonstrated ability to prepare students for a
multitude of different employment paths - not only later in life, but immediately upon graduation. My
post-graduation decision matrix was particularly eclectic...
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In his 2005 book The World is Flat, New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Thomas
Friedman illuminated the new digital face of globalization, its results and discontents. Friedman's "flat-world platform" permits individuals and small groups to compete...
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The death of the college degree - the standard signal for an educated adult for over a millennium - is foretold by the lions of Silicon Valley. Over the past year, the phenomenon known as massive open online courses (MOOCs) -- now being offered by elite universities like Stanford...
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If the presidential election was about one thing, it was jobs. A few numbers stand out from the
campaign: 23 million unemployed, an unemployment rate that has remained over 7% since the last
election, and finally 3.7 million unfilled jobs. America remains exceptional in many ways, but unfilled...
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Only a few topics in the Presidential debates produced complete agreement between President Obama and Governor Romney. The middle class?(Check. Both candidates seem to be in favor of the middle class.) The importance of families? (We're still waiting for the first anti-family Presidential...
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"This is the single biggest change in education since the printing press."
- Anant Agarwal, MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and President of edX
"In a MOOC, no one can hear you scream."
- Ann Kirschner...
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Conventional wisdom says - and most analysts agree - that online higher education will continue to
grow like a weed, with annual growth exceeding 20%. But how to square conventional wisdom with
increasing signs that the online market is plateauing? A new report from Eduventures based...
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Summary: Beer industry market segmentation is employed as an analogy for the online learning market. These segments provide different answers to the question of when and under what circumstances online learning will become the default medium for traditional age students.
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"The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever
known."
- Clark Kerr
From a global perspective, the most distinctive characteristic of American higher education is its
heterogeneity. While higher education in...
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Over the past decade, sales of recorded music are down 50% and continue to fall each year. The reason isn't online piracy. It's that digital technology has forced a revolution in a business model that had relied on bundling the music consumers wanted (singles) with music they...
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