The Future of Higher Education: Massive Online Open Disruption
What's the Big Idea?
Is college an expensive waste of time?
Peter Thiel and Vivek Wadhwa have debated this question repeatedly -- on 60 Minutes, at an Intelligence Squared debate in Chicago, and most recently at The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas that was held on Nantucket, Massachusetts earlier this month.
Thiel is a venture capitalist with a vision for jump-starting innovation. To that end, he has invested in transformational technologies and companies. He also encourages young people to start their own businesses instead of pursuing "the anonymous safety of working for others," according to a manifesto on Thiel's Founder's Fund website.
To put his money where his mouth is, Thiel set up a fellowship that pays students $100,000 to drop out of college. Over the course of two years, Thiel Fellows focus on how to make their innovative ideas into reality.
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Is college an expensive waste of time?
Peter Thiel and Vivek Wadhwa have debated this question repeatedly -- on 60 Minutes, at an Intelligence Squared debate in Chicago, and most recently at The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas that was held on Nantucket, Massachusetts earlier this month.
Thiel is a venture capitalist with a vision for jump-starting innovation. To that end, he has invested in transformational technologies and companies. He also encourages young people to start their own businesses instead of pursuing "the anonymous safety of working for others," according to a manifesto on Thiel's Founder's Fund website.
To put his money where his mouth is, Thiel set up a fellowship that pays students $100,000 to drop out of college. Over the course of two years, Thiel Fellows focus on how to make their innovative ideas into reality.
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