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Monday, November 12, 2001
http://www.geteducated.com/vugaz.htm Death of the Course Vicky Phillips ....Universities use formal courses to teach 16 million Americans every year. But more than four times this number -- 90 million adult Americans -- learn without the aid of formal courses each year. In 1997 The Education Development Center of Massachusetts quantified the amount of career knowledge that the average adult learns not in formal courses or degree programs but from co-workers: a shocking 70%. The Academy of Life enjoys a body of alumni much larger than the Ivy League. Adults crave education they can grab onto and put to immediate use. They take a pluck-n-play approach to knowledge. They pluck what they need to know from books, online discussion lists, Web sites, and the brains of their co-workers....
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