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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Higher education’s future is online, and it has already arrived now.
Chapter 3: Early universities were centered on students, but that focus soon shifted away.
Chapter 4: The printing press shaped the university model later carried over to the United States.
Chapter 5: American universities rest on three founding principles.
Chapter 6: Charles William Eliot devised the hybrid university, and with it the education market itself.
Chapter 7: American universities charge high fees to undergraduates, yet they hardly value students at all.
Chapter 8: What the University of Everywhere lacks in close teacher-student ties, it compensates for with greater flexibility.
Description
The End of College (2015) is about the American higher education system. These blinks give a historical overview of how the author sees the development of the American university and its evolution from European models. He evaluates its current status and advocates for the University of Everywhere – a remotely accessible university of the future.
Who Should Listen
- Students of public policy and education policy
- People curious about online learning
- Historians interested in higher education