<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 class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Ilia Bider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ilia@ibissoft.se" target="_blank">ilia@ibissoft.se</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Leon,<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 class="MsoNormal"><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 class="MsoNormal"><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 class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="6"><span>The
$6,600 Master's Degree<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>May 24, 2013
<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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 class="MsoNormal"><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 class="MsoNormal"><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 class="MsoNormal"><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 class="MsoNormal"><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 class="MsoNormal"><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 class="MsoNormal"><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 class="MsoNormal"><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 and watching
HD-quality video in one's living room or beach cabana?<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>From there it's not that
hard to question the cost of a standard master's degree,
which all-in can cost $50,000 to $60,000 per year. Even if
the experience is not the same, the
<i><span style="font-style:italic">value for money</span></i>
from the $6,600 degree appears at first blush, superior.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>For people in business,
there's plenty to take away here. It's easy to use the old
trope - disruption - but put that aside for a moment.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>The thought exercise I've
been going through is this: What's the proverbial
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">$6,600 Master's Degree</span></b>
in your industry? And what would happen to your industry
if it happened
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">now</span></b> rather
than in the murky future? It's a fun and sometimes
harrowing game to play.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>Let's try:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>For
doctors, it's nearly-thinking systems that can diagnose,
prescribe, and treat most common illnesses, absent human
intervention.</span></font></b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>For
journalists like me, it's already arrived. It's called
the free Internet.</span></font></b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>For taxi
drivers, it's driverless cars.</span></font></b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>For
hotels, it's
<a href="http://www.airbnb.com" target="_blank">Airbnb.</a></span></font></b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span>If you haven't devised the
answer for what it is you do, you have three choices:
Prepare for it, build it, or ignore it. What's your path?<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Best
wishes,<br>
Leon Kappelman<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">“<a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/f/franklind402955.html" title="view quote" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="text-decoration:none">Democracy
cannot succeed unless those who express their
choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real
safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.</span></font></a>”
–
<a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/f/franklind402955.html" title="view quote" target="_blank">
<font color="black"><span style="text-decoration:none">Franklin
D. Roosevelt</span></font></a><u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
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Professor of Information Systems <br>
Director Emeritus, Information Systems Research Center<br>
Fellow, Texas Center for Digital Knowledge<br>
College of Business, University of North Texas<br>
Voice: <a href="tel:940-565-4698" value="+19405654698" target="_blank">940-565-4698</a> Email: </span></font><font color="black"><span style><a href="mailto:kapp@unt.edu" target="_blank"><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">kapp@unt.edu</span></font></a></span></font><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><br>
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