Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Education reform: unbundling the university

KaplanInternational.com
A revolution in education is coming. This article from The Atlantic discusses alternate higher education. 
For a long time now, universities have flourished by offering a bundled package of knowledge and credentialing. People attended university in order to learn stuff that they couldn't learn elsewhere -- because the experts weren't elsewhere -- and to be certified by those experts as having actually learned said stuff. The bundle has been a culturally powerful one.

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