by Glenn Reynolds, the Examiner
If the current higher education sector is bloated and overpriced, what will students do? Will they simply forgo education entirely? Or will something else spring up? Well, something else seems to be springing up. Conventional colleges may be overpriced and underperforming, but those 19th century methods of teaching and learning are being challenged by 21st century alternatives. Case in point: the Harvard/MIT EdX model. Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have announced they’re putting 60 million dollars into an open-source online education program. A list of courses will be announced this summer and will be implemented in the fall, but the bottom line is that people all over the world will be able to study subjects taught at MIT and Harvard for free, and get “certification” — though not an actual diploma (yet) — if they pass certain tests.
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