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Doug Breitbart

Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher Edu... - 1 views

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    "Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher Education, and Why We Should Care"
Doug Breitbart

Venture Capital's Massive, Terrible Idea For The Future Of College | The Awl - 1 views

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    "Can you go to college on your computer? Some say yes, and others respond with a resounding no. But one thing is for sure: there is a boatload of public money to be vacuumed off an overcrowded, underfunded educational establishment desperate for at least the appearance of a quick fix. "
Doug Breitbart

New York Times to Suspend Online-Education Program - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Hi... - 0 views

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    "New York Times to Suspend Online-Education Program"
Doug Breitbart

The End of the University as We Know It - Nathan Harden - The American Interest Magazine - 0 views

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    "In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly 4,500 colleges and universities now operating in the United States will have ceased to exist. The technology driving this change is already at work, and nothing can stop it. The future looks like this: Access to college-level education will be free for everyone; the residential college campus will become largely obsolete; tens of thousands of professors will lose their jobs; the bachelor's degree will become increasingly irrelevant; and ten years from now Harvard will enroll ten million students."
Doug Breitbart

Two companies give faculty more control of online courses | Inside Higher Ed - 2 views

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    Freelance Professors December 14, 2012 - 3:00am By Paul Fain "Self-employed professor" could soon be an actual job title, thanks to two companies that are helping a small group of college professors market their own online courses, set prices for them and share the tuition revenue. Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/12/14/two-companies-give-faculty-more-control-online-courses#ixzz2J7h5IRxb Inside Higher Ed
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    Disintermediating students and teachers.
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