And, in my opinion, the ever-spiraling cost of quality higher education was a structural problem in the United States. Stories of graduate students and professionals recently-graduated from the Ivy Leagues saddled with six-figure debt were common. I do not think anyone can question the ability of Georgia Tech to teach a Master's in Computer Science.....and it is online and accessible around the world....competitor programs and schools will have to at least attempt to follow suit, or find something else to teach.<div>
<br></div><div>Geoff<span></span><br><br>On Monday, May 27, 2013, John Artz wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large">
Well put!! And therein lies the key to survival for universities.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large">
John<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div>On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Ilia Bider <span dir="ltr"><<a>ilia@ibissoft.se</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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What is the problem with this trend? I cannot see any, as long as
educators are serious when designing and conducting on-line
courses. Education is not disappearing :-) , it just takes
different forms :-(.<br>
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--Ilia<br>
On 2013-05-27 19:28, Kappelman, Leon wrote:<br>
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<p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=213114599&authType=name&authToken=Xtq2&goback=%2Empd2_*1_*1_*1_*1_%2F20130524203941*5213114599*5the*56*5600*5master*5s*5degree&trk=mp-ph-pn" target="_blank">Dennis
K. Berman</a><u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>Business
Editor of the Wall Street Journal<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="6"><span>The
$6,600 Master's Degree<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>May 24, 2013
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>There comes a time in every
concept's life when the thing...actually...happens.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>If you're reading this
post, you probably already have some familiarity with all
the jostling going on in the education business. You know,
for instance, that a number of companies are experimenting
with
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course" target="_blank">
MOOCs</a> (Massive Open Online Courses), <a href="http://mashable.com/2013/03/06/classroom-tablets/" target="_blank">
tablet-based learning</a>, and all kinds of in-school
networking and Big Data analytics.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>And then came
<a href="http://blog.udacity.com/2013/05/sebastian-thrun-announcing-online.html" target="_blank">
last week's announcemen</a>t.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>Georgia Tech, one of the
nation's best engineering schools, said it would begin
offering fully-accredited, real-world master's degrees in
computer science via the Internet. The cost: About $6,600.
Or roughly the cost of a few years of
<i><span style="font-style:italic">interest</span></i>
that many graduate students pay on a big loan to fund
their education.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>Here is the key line from
the
<b><span style="font-weight:bold"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324031404578483670125295836.html" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal</a>'</span></b>s
take on the program:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>The upfront costs to create
the online lectures run between $200,000 and $300,000, but
once those hard outlays have been made the cost per each
additional student is minimal, said Mr. Isbell. He
estimated the school would have to hire one full-time
teacher for every 100 online students as opposed to one
full-time teacher for every 10 or 20 students who study on
campus.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>The description made me
recall my freshman political science class in the
mid-1990s, held in a dusty auditorium in West
Philadelphia, a bow-tied professor reading his erudite,
but canned, lecture to a few hundred freshmen.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>Looking
back on it now, this experience had far more in common
with the Middle Ages than the world of 2013.</span></font></b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span> What's the difference
between watching a lecture in an auditorium an</span></font></p></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><div dir="ltr"><b><span style>John M. Artz, PhD<br>Webpages: <a href="http://home.gwu.edu/%7Ejartz" target="_blank">http://home.gwu.edu/~jartz</a><br>
Email: <a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jartz@gwu.edu');" target="_blank">jartz@gwu.edu</a><br></span><span style="color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span style>“Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.” - Stoic Proverb</span></span></span></b><span style="color:rgb(76,17,48)"><span style="background-color:rgb(7,55,99)"><span style="background-color:rgb(76,17,48)"><span></span></span></span></span><b><span style></span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(32,18,77)"></span></div>
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