Meeting the Challenge of Free Education: How to Make Money When the Competition Is Giving It Away
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INTRODUCTION In the very near future, the huge and rapidly growing store of free, online learning opportunities will completely transform higher continuing education. The beginnings of this transformation are already evident and the factors compelling this change are so powerful that free learning is no longer a “trend.” Rather, free learning is an imperative that must be recognized soon if current higher-education institutions, and particularly their continuing-education arms, are to survive and continue to be useful to society.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011