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Abelard to Apple : The Fate of American Colleges and Universities.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (339 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262298506
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Abelard to AppleDDC classification:
  • 378.73
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- I Great Visions to Lure Them On -- 1 Are You Teaching This Summer? -- 2 A World of Subjective Judgments -- 3 The Smartest Kid in Class -- 4 The Twenty-First Century -- II An Abundance of Choices -- 5 It Takes a Lot to Get Us Excited -- 6 The Computer in the Cathedral -- 7 Do No Harm -- 8 The Factory -- 9 Disruption -- III A Better Means of Expressing Their Goals -- 10 The Value of a University -- 11 Of Majors and Memes -- 12 Threads -- IV Abelard to Apple -- 13 The Stardom of Leonard Susskind -- 14 Unkept Technological Promises -- 15 A Substitute for Deep Reflection -- 16 The Process-Centered University -- 17 Hacking Degrees -- V The Long View -- 18 The Laws of Innovation -- 19 Just Change My Title to "Architect" -- 20 Rules for the Twenty-First Century -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: How institutions of higher learning can rescue themselves from irrelevance and marginalization in the age of iTunes U and YouTube EDU.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- I Great Visions to Lure Them On -- 1 Are You Teaching This Summer? -- 2 A World of Subjective Judgments -- 3 The Smartest Kid in Class -- 4 The Twenty-First Century -- II An Abundance of Choices -- 5 It Takes a Lot to Get Us Excited -- 6 The Computer in the Cathedral -- 7 Do No Harm -- 8 The Factory -- 9 Disruption -- III A Better Means of Expressing Their Goals -- 10 The Value of a University -- 11 Of Majors and Memes -- 12 Threads -- IV Abelard to Apple -- 13 The Stardom of Leonard Susskind -- 14 Unkept Technological Promises -- 15 A Substitute for Deep Reflection -- 16 The Process-Centered University -- 17 Hacking Degrees -- V The Long View -- 18 The Laws of Innovation -- 19 Just Change My Title to "Architect" -- 20 Rules for the Twenty-First Century -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

How institutions of higher learning can rescue themselves from irrelevance and marginalization in the age of iTunes U and YouTube EDU.

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