TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carey,Kevin
TI  - The end of college: creating the future of learning and the university of everywhere 
SN  - 1594632057 (hbk.)
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
KW  - Distance education
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Internet in higher education
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index; The secret of life -- A sham, a bauble, a dodge -- The Absolut Rolex plan -- Cathedrals -- Learning like Alexander -- Thunder lizards -- Anything for anyone, anywhere -- Imaginary Harvard and virtual MIT -- Less like a yacht -- Open badges -- The weight of large numbers -- Your children and the university of everywhere
N2  - Over the span of just nine months in 2011 and 2012, the world's most famous universities and high-powered technology entrepreneurs began a race to revolutionize higher education. College courses that had been kept for centuries from all but an elite few were released to millions of students throughout the world -- for free. Exploding college prices and a flagging global economy, combined with the derring-do of a few intrepid innovators, have created a climate for a total rethinking of an industry that has remained virtually unchanged for a hundred years. In The End of College, Kevin Carey, an education researcher and writer, draws on years of reporting and research to paint a portrait of the future of education. Carey explains how two trends -- the skyrocketing cost of college and the revolution in information technology -- are converging in ways that will radically alter the college experience, upend the traditional meritocracy, and emancipate hundreds of millions of people around the world
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