What’s Going to Become of Higher Ed?

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes:

Randall Parker thinks that higher education may be the next bubble to pop.

Speaking of education and innovation, be sure to take a look at MRUniversity, a new venture by Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen, the two economist-proprietors of the justly-popular Marginal Revolution blog. Free online courses in econ is the vision here. I’m following along with the outfit’s first course myself. Alex and Tyler are among the most helpful and culture-aware economists I know of.

Eager to hear what our co-blogger Fenster (who has mucho experience in the higher-ed field) makes of these developments.

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5 Responses to What’s Going to Become of Higher Ed?

  1. Scott's avatar Scott says:
    October 5, 2012 at 2:44 pm

    Nick Carr is talking about higher ed & online education — http://www.roughtype.com/

    (Unschooled, zero experience with higher ed, but Nick is a pretty smart feller.)

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  2. Blowhard, Esq.'s avatar Blowhard, Esq. says:
    October 5, 2012 at 3:00 pm

    Given all the educational resources online — a trend that only seems to be growing as MRUniversity shows — there’s no reason why we can’t move away from the BA degree towards certification like Charles Murray has been arguing: http://faculty.isi.org/blog/post/view/id/30/

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  3. Toddy Cat's avatar Toddy Cat says:
    October 5, 2012 at 3:20 pm

    It’ll come, but not as fast as people think, if only because you can’t get drunk and paw freshman girls at an online university.

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