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the morass of accreditation rules and federal regulations that make it hard for entrepreneurs to compete directly with traditional schools. Finally, Bali raised his hand and politely said, in effect, I don’t understand why any of this matters. I can go online right now and get everything I need to learn—courses, textbooks, videos, other students to study with—for free. And if I need to know what someone else has learned, I can look at their LinkedIn profile or their blog to find out. At a certain point, probably before this decade is out, that parallel universe will reach a point of sophistication and credibility where the degrees—or whatever new word is invented to mean “evidence of your skills and knowledge”—it grants are taken seriously by employers. The online learning environments will be good enough, and access to broadband Internet wide enough, that you won’t need to be a math prodigy like Eren Bali to learn, get a credential, and attract the attention of global employers. Companies like OpenStudy, Kno, Quizlet, Chegg, Inigral, and Degreed will provide all manner of supportive services—study groups, e-books, flash cards, course notes, college-focused social networking, and many other fabulous, as-yet-un-invented things. Bali isn’t just the model of the new ed tech entrepre-
neur—he’s the new global student, too, finally able to transcend the happenstance of where he was born. That’s when American colleges and universities will really start to feel the pain. Political pressure will continue to grow for credits earned in low-cost MOOCs to be transferable to traditional colleges, cutting into the profit margins that colleges have traditionally enjoyed in providing large, lecture-based college courses. At the same time, people with huge student loan burdens from overpriced institutions will be undercut in the labor market by foreign-born workers willing to work for less because they incurred no debt in getting valuable credentials in the parallel higher education universe. Colleges with strong brand names and other sources of revenue (e.g., government-sponsored research or acculturating the children of the ruling class) will emerge stronger than ever. Everyone else will scramble to survive as vestigial players. At least, that’s what people are dreaming of in the valley. If history is any guide, some of them are going to be right.
kevin Carey directs the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation.
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Editor’s Note: Where Credit Is Due
Letters
Tilting at Windmills
Do Presidential Debates Really Matter?
The Clintonites’ Beef With Obama
Party Animals
Introduction: A Different Kind of College Ranking
America’s Best-Bang-for-the-Buck Colleges
The Siege of Academe
Getting Rid of the College Loan Repo Man
Got Student Debt?
Answering the Critics of “Pay As You Earn” Plans
National University Rankings
Liberal Arts College Rankings
Top 100 Master’s Universities
Top 100 Baccalaureate Colleges
A Note on Methodology: 4-Year Colleges and Universities
Why Aren’t Conservatives Funny?
First-Rate Temperaments
A Malevolent Forrest Gump
Broken in Hoboken
Identity Politics Revisited
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