One of the regrets I had while writing that upcoming MIT Press book on MOOCs was that the laser-focus of the Essential Series did not offer the chance to include a wider discussion of how Massive Open Online Courses fit into a wider ecosystem of educational experimentation. Long before “The Year of the MOOC” (previously […]
Campus Technology 2014 Conference
If any Degree of Freedom readers plan to attend next week’s Campus Technology 2014 conference in Boston, I’ll be speaking at 9:40 on Tuesday morning. Here is the rest of the lineup and drop me a note if you’d like to connect during that event (I’ll definitely be at the conference during the day on Tuesday […]
The Bennett Hypothesis
In a review of Archibald and Feldman’s Why Does College Cost So Much? (and an associated follow up), I alluded to what has become conventional wisdom regarding the high cost of college, a set of factors almost taken for granted in every other book or film on the topic I’ve reviewed this year. While so […]
Tuition Discounting – Does Anyone Pay Sticker Price?
A review of the book Why Does College Cost So Much? talked about one factor for the rapid rise of college tuition (cost disease). But today, I’d like to look at another factor the author’s take on: the practice of tuition discounting. College costs are already subsidized for most students in one way or another. […]
Why Does College Cost So Much?
The title of today’s entry sums up the question I’ve been trying to answer during Monday postings over the last several months. But it is also the title of one of the most intriguing books on the subject of the price of college: Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman’s Why Does College Cost So […]
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