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So it spreads.On the other hand, some bar review courses are so expensive the websites don't even have the guts to list the price.The newly easy access to the education marketplace (you used to need a big campus and a spot in the guidance office) means that both the free and expensive options are going to be experimented with, because the number of people in the education business is going to explode (then implode).If you think the fallout in the newspaper business was dramatic, wait until you see what happens to education.Should this be about school or about learning?School was the big thing for a long time.
Education at the crossroads
Actually, there isn't one, there are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make.Should this be scarce or abundant?MIT and Stanford are starting to make classes available for free online. The marginal cost of this is pretty close to zero, so it's easy for them to share. Abundant education is easy to access and offers motivated individuals a chance to learn.Scarcity comes from things like accreditation, admissions policies or small classrooms. Should this be free or expensive?Wikipedia offers the world's fact base to everyone, for free. So it spreads.On the other hand, some bar review courses are so expensive the websites don't even have the guts to list the price.The newly easy access to the education marketplace (you used to need a big campus and a spot in the guidance office) means that both the free and expensive options are going to be experimented with, because the number of people in the education business is goin...
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