Money and Finance
- Moocs’ Disruption Is Only Beginning - By Clayton M. Christensen And Michelle R. Weise
Link to article: MOOCs’ disruption is only beginningJOURNALISTS, AS 2013 ended, were busy declaring the death of MOOCs, more formally known as massive open online courses. Silicon Valley startup Udacity, one of the first to offer the free Web-based...
- Econtalk: Cochrane On Education And Moocs
Link to podcast: Cochrane on Education and MOOCsJohn Cochrane of the University of Chicago talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the experience of teaching a massive open online course (MOOC)--a class delivered over the internet available to...
- The Barbarians Are At The Gate! Of Universities, Moats And Disruption! - By Aswath Damodaran
Link to: The barbarians are at the gate! Of universities, moats and disruption!In my last post, I attempted to break down the bundled product that comprises a college education into its component parts, and closed by arguing that the future of universities...
- The $4 Million Teacher
Thanks to David for passing this along. Kim Ki-hoon earns $4 million a year in South Korea, where he is known as a rock-star teacher—a combination of words not typically heard in the rest of the world. Mr. Kim has been teaching for over 20 years, all...
- Clayton Christensen: Still Disruptive
Thanks to Will for passing this along. Christensen’s answer the question excerpted below is especially interesting, and echoes what John Templeton wrote in 2005: “Most of the methods of universities and other schools, which require residence, have...
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What Campuses Can Learn From Online Teaching
Thanks to Will for passing this along.
Higher education is at a crossroads not seen since the introduction of the printing press. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other campuses, the upheaval today is coming from the technological change posed by online education. But that's only the half of it. Just as edX, Coursera, Udacity and other online-learning platforms are beginning to offer the teaching of great universities at low or no cost, residential education's long-simmering financial problem is reaching a crisis point.
- Moocs’ Disruption Is Only Beginning - By Clayton M. Christensen And Michelle R. Weise
Link to article: MOOCs’ disruption is only beginningJOURNALISTS, AS 2013 ended, were busy declaring the death of MOOCs, more formally known as massive open online courses. Silicon Valley startup Udacity, one of the first to offer the free Web-based...
- Econtalk: Cochrane On Education And Moocs
Link to podcast: Cochrane on Education and MOOCsJohn Cochrane of the University of Chicago talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the experience of teaching a massive open online course (MOOC)--a class delivered over the internet available to...
- The Barbarians Are At The Gate! Of Universities, Moats And Disruption! - By Aswath Damodaran
Link to: The barbarians are at the gate! Of universities, moats and disruption!In my last post, I attempted to break down the bundled product that comprises a college education into its component parts, and closed by arguing that the future of universities...
- The $4 Million Teacher
Thanks to David for passing this along. Kim Ki-hoon earns $4 million a year in South Korea, where he is known as a rock-star teacher—a combination of words not typically heard in the rest of the world. Mr. Kim has been teaching for over 20 years, all...
- Clayton Christensen: Still Disruptive
Thanks to Will for passing this along. Christensen’s answer the question excerpted below is especially interesting, and echoes what John Templeton wrote in 2005: “Most of the methods of universities and other schools, which require residence, have...