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Monday, October 24, 2005
Issues and Insights: Campus Revolt - Investor's Business Daily
....For the past decade major universities have tried to accommodate the explosion of online learning. The fertile ground of cyberspace yields even more effective and economical means of learning. With the great books online, and learned tutorials on cheap software, the need for traditional classrooms evaporates, as does the faculty's guild mentality. The wisdom of Western civilization gets transmitted in megachurches and that marketplace of ideas that could be called the University of Amazon.com. The long-lost distinction between education and training finally disentangles, with business stepping up to assure a skilled work force. The Master of Business Administration degree gives way to specific certificates awarded by successful Internet firms.
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