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Online Education Will Be the Next 'Bubble' To Pop, Not Traditional University Learning - Forbes

Online Education Will Be the Next 'Bubble' To Pop, Not Traditional University Learning - Forbes:

Online Education Will Be the Next 'Bubble' To Pop, Not Traditional University Learning

Brown University
Brown University (Photo credit: Patricia Drury)
Speaking in Providence, RI not too long ago, the post-speech conversation turned to college education. The word was that Brown University’s tuition alone had risen above $50,000 per year.
The above number is staggering. For the most part college students tune out during their four years on campus; that, or they memorize what’s needed to get As on the tests. Why then would any parent pay the sky-high tuition, and then barring parental help, what 18-year old would take on that kind of debt in order to be the recipient of lots of largely useless