Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
The concept is becoming much more widespread, almost mainstream. "Instead of attending a high-cost bricks-and-mortar college, debt-averse students are taking online courses, studying with freelance professors and using a portfolio of test results, essays and reports on activities to qualify for jobs without a college degree. It's Jane Shaw‘s fantasy of the future of higher education. It all started, Shaw writes, on May 28, 2010, when "Your Money" columnist Ron Lieber wrote about  Cortney Munna, a graduate of New York University who owed $97,000 in student loans and works for a photographer earning $22 an hour." I feel it.

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