What Clay Shirky thinks about education
American writer on the social and economic effects of the internet, author of Here Comes Everybody (2008) and Cognitive Surplus (2010); has taught at New York University.
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3 dated positions, 2012, in their own words. Our reading of what Clay Shirky has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsHigher education has a bad case of cost disease (sometimes called Baumol’s cost disease, after one of its theorizers.)
↗Napster, Udacity, and the Academyshirky.com 2nd of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsThe possibility MOOCs hold out is that the educational parts of education can be unbundled.
↗Napster, Udacity, and the Academyshirky.com 3rd of 5 in this piece
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Our readingA US undergraduate degree has become a requirement for not falling out of the middle class.
Their wordsIn the US, an undergraduate education used to be an option, one way to get into the middle class. Now it’s a hostage situation, required to avoid falling out of it.
↗Napster, Udacity, and the Academyshirky.com 4th of 5 in this piece