Abelard to Apple : the fate of American colleges and universities

Abelard to Apple : the fate of American colleges and universities / Richard A. DeMillo.

How institutions of higher learning can rescue themselves from irrelevance and marginalization in the age of iTunes U and YouTube EDU. The vast majority of American college students attend two thousand or so private and public institutions that might be described as the Middle--reputable educational...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DeMillo, Richard A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Universities and colleges > United States.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
Educational change > United States.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
Educational change
Universities and colleges
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Great visions to lure them on
  • 1. Are you teaching this summer?
  • 2. A world of subjective judgments
  • 3. The smartest kid in class
  • 4. The twenty-first century
  • II. An abundance of choices
  • 5. It takes a lot to get us excited
  • 6. The computer in the cathedral
  • 7. Do no harm
  • 8. The factory
  • 9. Disruption
  • III. A better means of expressing their goals
  • 10. The value of a university
  • 11. Of majors and memes
  • 12. Threads
  • IV. Abelard to Apple
  • 13. The stardom of Leonard Susskind
  • 14. Unkept technological promises
  • 15. A substitute for deep reflection
  • 16. The process-centered university
  • 17. Hacking degrees
  • V. The long view
  • 18. The laws of innovation
  • 19. Just change my title to "architect"
  • 20. Rules for the twenty-first century.

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