The end of college creating the future of learning and the university of everywhere
Over the span of just nine months in 2011 and 2012, the world's most famous universities and high-powered technology entrepreneurs began a race to revolutionize higher education. College courses that had been kept for centuries from all but an elite few were released to millions of students thr...
| Main Author: | Carey, Kevin, 1970- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA),
2015.
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| Summary: |
Over the span of just nine months in 2011 and 2012, the world's most famous universities and high-powered technology entrepreneurs began a race to revolutionize higher education. College courses that had been kept for centuries from all but an elite few were released to millions of students throughout the world -- for free. Exploding college prices and a flagging global economy, combined with the derring-do of a few intrepid innovators, have created a climate for a total rethinking of an industry that has remained virtually unchanged for a hundred years. In The End of College, Kevin Carey, an education researcher and writer, draws on years of reporting and research to paint a portrait of the future of education. Carey explains how two trends -- the skyrocketing cost of college and the revolution in information technology -- are converging in ways that will radically alter the college experience, upend the traditional meritocracy, and emancipate hundreds of millions of people around the world. |
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| Physical Description: |
277 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781594632051 (hbk.) 1594632057 (hbk.) |
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