Prompted by the launch of Udacity [see also Sebastian Thrun's explanation], Matt Welsh, who used to teach at Harvard and now works for Google, writes what he describes as a "little rant" - 1500 words - that ponders "the failings of the conventional higher education model". He focuses three main failures of HE - Exclusivity; Grades; and Lectures. But he also includes some caveats, concluding "I'm not sure there can ever be an online replacement for The College Experience writ large". Welsh's piece is the stronger for the large number of often thoughtful comments that follow it.
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