Has the Higher-Ed Revolution Begun?
By Charlotte Allen
It's happening, almost overnight: what could be the collapse of the near-monopoly that traditional brick-and-mortar colleges and universities currently enjoy as respected credentialing institutions whose degrees and grades mean something to employers.
The most dramatic development, just a few days ago, was the decision of robotics-expert Sebastian Thrun to resign from his position as a tenured professor of computer science at Stanford in order to start an online university he calls Udacity that he hopes will reach hundreds of thousands of students who either can't afford Stanford's $40,000-a-year tuition or who can't travel thousands of miles to one of the bricks-and-mortar classes he used to teach.
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