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THE END OF COLLEGE
Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere
In the summer of 2011, Stanford professor and robotics guru Sebastian Thrun decided to let anyone on Earth take his artificial intelligence course online. For free. By the time university officials got wind of what he was up to, it was too late—more than a hundred thousand people had signed up. This single, unplanned act revolutionized higher education throughout the world.
Skyrocketing college costs and a flagging global economy, combined with the derring-do of a few intrepid innovators like Thrun and leading universities around the world, have created a dynamic climate for a total rethinking of an industry that has remained virtually unchanged for 300 years. In The End of College, Kevin Carey, a leading education researcher and writer, shines a light on this transformative time in higher education, when the fundamental role of colleges in our society—and for some of them, their very existence—has begun to be rethought.
Drawing on years of in-depth reporting and cutting-edge research, Carey paints a vivid and surprising portrait of the future of education. He explains how two trends – the skyrocketing cost of college and the revolution in information technology – are converging in ways that will radically alter the college experience, upend the traditional meritocracy, and emancipate hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Insightful, innovative, and accessible, The End of College is a must-read, and an important contribution to the developing conversation about education.
Kevin Carey directs the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation, a leading think tank in Washington, DC. His writing has appeared in print and online in The New York Times, The New Republic, Washington Monthly, Democracy, The American Prospect, The Atlantic, Inside Higher Ed, and The Washington Post, and he writes a monthly column for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Carey lives with his wife and daughter on Capitol Hill, and teaches education policy at Johns Hopkins University.
Drawing on years of in-depth reporting and cutting-edge research, Carey paints a vivid and surprising portrait of the future of education. He explains how two trends – the skyrocketing cost of college and the revolution in information technology – are converging in ways that will radically alter the college experience, upend the traditional meritocracy, and emancipate hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Insightful, innovative, and accessible, The End of College is a must-read, and an important contribution to the developing conversation about education.
Kevin Carey directs the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation, a leading think tank in Washington, DC. His writing has appeared in print and online in The New York Times, The New Republic, Washington Monthly, Democracy, The American Prospect, The Atlantic, Inside Higher Ed, and The Washington Post, and he writes a monthly column for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Carey lives with his wife and daughter on Capitol Hill, and teaches education policy at Johns Hopkins University.
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