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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Will internet education burst the Higher Education Bubble

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No - because if it was going to, it would already have done so.

This paper by my late penfriend Martin Trow was written at least 13 years ago:

http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?id=97

And, really, nothing has changed since - has it?

Except that education is now a lot more expensive, and nearly all of it is a lot less educative.

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