Today we are joined by Michelle Weise, Senior Research Fellow for Higher Education at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. Articles about massive open online courses (MOOCs) would be a lot shorter if shorn of words and phrases containing the word “disruption.” But disruptive technology and the like are not simply catch phrases, but […]
Site Changes
As keen-eyed readers will have no-doubt observed, this site is going through some changes that I expect to be completed by the end of the week. First off, none of the content on the site is going away, nor do I plan to change my current schedule of 2-3 blog postings a week and 2-4 […]
Does College Cost Negative $500,000?
Whenever you take on the issue of the escalating cost of college, a frequent response is that the price of higher education is well worth it when you take into account the increased lifetime earning power college grads have over those who only make it through high school. A well-articulated version of this argument appeared […]
The Cost of College – Intangibles
A couple of weeks back, I calculated that if the price of college had risen as fast as housing (another market that has significantly outpaced inflation over the last 40-50 years), the cost for a year at even the best school should be no more than $15,000. I also used Harvard Extension’s degree program to […]
Rebekah Nathan’s Freshman Year
I just finished a book that provides an interesting response to the question I hinted at in my last posting, namely, what makes up that component of the college experience that seems to command so much more of the cost of college than do classes alone? My Freshman Year, by Rebekah Nathan (a pseudonym, for […]
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