Revolution in Higher Education - How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable

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Colleges and universities have become increasingly costly, but for the past few years, technology-fueled innovation has begun to transform higher education, introducing new ways to disseminate knowledge and better ways to learn -- all at lower cost. In this book, the author tells the story of these pioneering efforts and offers a roadmap for transforming higher education. He chronicles, among other things, the invention of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) by professors at Stanford and MIT; Salman Khan's Khan Academy; the use of technology by struggling historically black colleges and universities to make learning more accessible; and the latest research on learning and the brain. He describes the revolution's goals and the entrenched hierarchical system it aims to overthrow; and he reframes the nature of the contract between society and its universities. --Publisher description