Online Learning Update

November 28, 2010

The 21st-century retreat from public higher education

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:04 am

By Michael Konczal, Washington Post

One striking thing about the current global recession, a crisis that has hit those in the United States with weaker education backgrounds much harder than others, is that one response has been the massive retrenchment, austerity and abandonment of the promise and ideal of public college education. This is not only a U.S. phenomenon. One thing I learned in graduate school is that the best thing a professor can do is tell you who to read, so let me give you a reading list of the best of what I’ve seen recently.

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