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Will online education trash graduate schools?

Gregory Ferenstein at TechCrunch rolls out the usual discourse about the immense potential of online education. Along the way, he drops a bombshell and suggests that online education will trash graduate school because no one will bother going to grad school because there won’t be any jobs for professors. They’ll all be replaced with online education. I had to snicker and wonder if he realized that the gaping, post-grad-school abyss has never stopped the blithe true believers yet. Why will it make a difference now?

Heck, it might even create more “jobs” or “TAships” for the grad students because someone will need to grade the thousands of papers turned in. There may only be one professors per 100,000 students, but there may be 100 “grad students”. Whoo hoo!

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  1. Here is the story we have been waiting for:

    “Alleged robber with Bucky Badger hat needed money for debt, complaint says” by Ed Treleven in the Wisconsin State Journal on January 19, 2013

    http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/alleged-robber-with-bucky-badger-hat-needed-money-for-debt/article_90e71ea0-61ab-11e2-9390-001a4bcf887a.html

    A man who wore a three-dimensional Bucky Badger hat when he allegedly robbed an East Side credit union last week told police that he wants to go to prison and needed the money because he has $250,000 in student debt.

    Randall H. Hubatch, 49, of Madison, was charged Friday with armed robbery for the Jan. 11 robbery of the Summit Credit Union, 1799 Thierer Road. …

    “If the district attorney agrees to send me to prison for a long time, then I will confess and plead guilty,” Hubatch told Madison police …

    An online UW-Madison directory lists Hubatch as a lead custodian at Union South on the UW-Madison campus. … Hubatch is not a current student but earned a bachelor’s in English in 1998 and a law degree in 2004.

    1. Walter Sobchak on January 20th, 2013 at 10:38 pm