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And that’s the warning that the authors of Why Does College Cost So Much? give about online education. From a University of Washington summary of the book:
While they think that better integrating technology with instruction will produce marginal gains, online education is unlikely to revolutionize the industry unless post-secondary teaching is totally redefined. Unintended consequences could include:
… Static course content in an ever-changing world
… A shrunken research enterprise
… Inability to recruit the brightest minds to work as online-only instructors
… Declining focus on teaching critical thinking skills as opposed to facts and figures
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After I posted about the book Why Does College Cost So Much? yesterday, I got a note from Rand Park, director of corporate relations for the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.
He pointed me to a 2003 article from The New Yorker. It focuses on a phenomenon, mentioned in the book, that is a main factor behind the rising price of higher education: “cost disease.”
(Economists apparently call it “Baumol’s cost disease,” after NYU economist William Baumol, who explained it in the 1960s.)
He wrote me, calling the article:
… one of the most succinct and easily-digestible pieces I have ever read on the topic.
So, to the main argument — which has implications for online education:
Baumol explained that many services, unlike manufacturing, don’t experience productivity gains (such as those gained through technology) that would lead to lower cost. The New Yorker uses his example of musicians to illustrate the argument:
When Mozart composed his String Quintet in G Minor (K. 516), in 1787, you needed five people to perform it—two violinists, two violists, and a cellist. Today, you still need five people, and, unless they play really fast, they take about as long to perform it as musicians did two centuries ago. So much for progress.
And musicians aren’t alone:
In a number of industries, workers produce about as much per hour as they did a decade or two ago. The average college professor can’t grade papers or give lectures any faster today than he did in the early nineties. It takes a waiter just as long to serve a meal, and a car-repair guy just as long to fix a radiator hose.
So compensation continues to rise over time because those who hire such professionals (especially highly skilled workers such as doctors, lawyers and professors) need to pay them enough to keep them from going elsewhere.
The main point — and one raised by Minnesota higher education officials time after time in legislative budget-cut hearings — is made in the article:
To lower prices you have to lower quality.
And that’s the warning that the authors of Why Does College Cost So Much? give about online education. From a University of Washington summary of the book:
While they think that better integrating technology with instruction will produce marginal gains, online education is unlikely to revolutionize the industry unless post-secondary teaching is totally redefined.
Unintended consequences could include:
… Static course content in an ever-changing world
… A shrunken research enterprise
… Inability to recruit the brightest minds to work as online-only instructors
… Declining focus on teaching critical thinking skills as opposed to facts and figures
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The increasing cost of a college education concerns people regardless of their income level or politics. It’s the subject of congressional hearings, protests and everyday conversation. But why does higher education cost so much? Are our universities simply dysfunctional and inefficient? Or is it more complicated than that? Wednesday, we’ll explore those questions in front of a live audience at the Hinckley Institute of Politics. The scholars Robert Archibald and Nicholas Hillman are our guests. And we hope you’ll join us, too.
RadioWest and The Hinckley Institute of Politics invite you to join our live audience tomorrow, March 6, at 11 a.m. in the Hinckley Caucus Room, in Orson Spencer Hall on the University of Utah campus. The event it free and open to the public. For more details, click here.
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Dr. Robert B. Archibald is a Professor of Economics at the College of William and Mary. Along with his colleague David Feldman he co-authored the book Why Does College Cost So Much?
Dr. Nicholas W. Hillman is an assistant professor in the University of Utah’s Department of Educational Leadership & Policy, where he specializes in higher education finance and student enrollment at .
It’s part of the University of Utah Hinckley Institute of Politics’ Sixteenth Annual Rocco C. and Marion S. Siciliano Forum, “Considerations on the Status of the American Society.” For other events in the week, click here.
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Only six more days until that time of the year where the stress level of FSU students reaches its peak. But, what I’ve found is that sometimes what’s almost as hard as studying for tests is figuring out the best way to do it. Where on campus can you possibly go that won’t be packed solid and will—maybe—offer an outlet and a bit of silence?
Naturally there’s the obvious places like Strozier and Dirac, both of which are going to be open longer. But few people are naïve enough to think there will actually be outlets (or even chairs) left at Strozier during finals week, so there’s a good chance you’ll have to seek out alternative study spaces. There are some facilities that make the perfect cram spot simply because most people don’t think of them as such.
One of these is the popular hangout spots is the Union. Next week, it closes at midnight Monday through Thursday and still offers activities at Club Downunder and Crenshaw Lanes for those much-needed study breaks.
“The Union is unique in that you can take a break from study and go outside in an instant,” Union Director Bill Clutter said. “We are a good place to meet with your friends and classmates.”
One of the best parts of the Union to do exactly that is the SLC.
“The couches are a great place for groups to meet because they don’t feel like they have to be quiet as much as some of the other study spaces,” Manager Amie Runk said. “While you see people studying for their next class, reading, or typing a paper, there are also people who are blowing off steam.”
It’s the perfect balance of work and play. There’s a fair amount of tables, outlets, and a quiet area upstairs for students looking for some quiet, and although there won’t be any movies, there is always the option of renting a video or board game, or relaxing in front of some wonderfully mindless TV.
During finals week, the SLC will be open from 8 a.m. to midnight. Students can take advantage of the steady supply of caffeine at the Grindhouse, offers more way more choices than Starbucks (and a shorter line to boot).
As for the when, finals week may be one of the few instances where it definitely pays to be a morning person, as that seems to be the least busy time for popular study places and crowds are smallest. Students are in class, working, taking exams or catching up on their sleep after pulling an all-nighter.
“There is a lot of downtime in the morning hour,” Runk said. “The couches and tables by the outlets are generally open during that time and the early afternoon. Around 4 p.m. or 5 p.m. are when people generally start filing in.”
Instead of pulling an all-nighter, try getting some sleep so you can rise early and pull and all-dayer. You’re much more likely to focus with more sleep and less crowds, not to mention more likely to find a desk to drop your mountain of textbooks.
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He was responding to report of a disturbance Thursday night when he was shot multiple times, according to a statement from the Middlesex district attorney’s office and Cambridge police.
According to CBS News, the suspects ambushed him after robbing a 7-Eleven, assuming he had been given their description.
He was shot and killed in his cruiser, gun holstered. CBS Boston reported he never confronted the subject.
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… Officer Sean Collier, 26, was killed early Friday after being shot multiple times by Boston Marathon bombing suspects
… Collier was on the MIT campus responding to a disturbance report
… Richard Donohue, 33, a transit officer shot by the suspects, was sent to surgery at Cambridge’s Mount Auburn Hospital
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A Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was shot and killed at the campus during the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects shortly before a second officer was critically injured in a shootout with the duo.
The officer has not been identified by authorities, but early reports identified the MIT officer as Sean Collier, 26.
No arrests had been made, and a manhunt was on for the shooter.
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Collier was critically injured in an early morning shootout Friday with the two suspects in the marathon bombings.
He was responding to report of a disturbance Thursday night when he was shot multiple times, according to a statement from the Middlesex district attorney’s office and Cambridge police.
According to CBS News, the suspects ambushed him after robbing a 7-Eleven, assuming he had been given their description.
He was shot and killed in his cruiser, gun holstered. CBS Boston reported he never confronted the subject.
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… Boston is on LOCKDOWN as the ENTIRE CITY told to stay indoors during manhunt for the second bombing suspect
The shooting took place about 10:30 p.m. outside an MIT building, according to state police spokesman Dave Procopio.
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It said there were no other victims.
Collier was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead from his wounds.
Collier’s family said he had always wanted to be an officer.
‘Our only solace is that Sean died bravely doing what he committed his life to, serving and protecting others,’ the family said in a statement reported by WBZ-TV. ‘We are thankful for the outpouring of support and condolences offered by so many people.’
Collier worked at the Somerville Police Department as an information technology employee prior to joining MIT’s campus police force.
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Lt. William Rymill, of the Somerville Police, told The Huffington Post Collier had ‘a heart of gold.’
‘He is going to be greatly, sorely missed,’ Rymill said. ‘He was an all-around great person.’
In two months he likely would’ve fulfilled his lifelong dream. He recently received high marks on a civil service exam and was a likely candidate to join the Somerville police department this summer, the Boston Globe reported.
‘Anybody could relate to him. Sean could talk to anybody,’ said Somerville police Lt. William Rymill. ‘The girls here in dispatch haven’t stopped crying.’
His roommate, who declined to give his name to reporters, trained with Collier at the academy and described his fallen friend as too brave.
‘He was the guy who went to help,’ Collier’s roommate said. ‘The best guy got shot down by the biggest scumbags.’
Collier was further described as a warm man with a love of camping and country music.
On Twitter, people who claimed to have known Collier mourned him as a hero.
‘I knew him,’ wrote Bruce Mendelsohn, founder of The Hired Pen. ‘He was always kind, friendly, and helpful. Another senseless tragedy.’
‘This kid’s dream was to be a police officer,’ wrote Eric V. Alexander. ‘That’s all he talked about the whole ride up. He died doing what he loved. RIP Sean Collier.’
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MIT said on its website right after the shooting that police were sweeping the campus in Cambridge and urged people to remain indoors until further notice.
People were urged to stay away from the Stata Building, a mixed use building with faculty offices, classrooms and a common area.
Hours later, MIT said the campus was clear.
Suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaey and younger brother Dzhokhar then stole a Mercedes-Benz with the driver inside and fled the scene.
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They critically wounded another officer during a shootout in Watertown.
Richard Donohue, 33, a three-year-veteran of the department, was last reported to be in surgery at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge.
Tamerlan was critically injured in the gunfire exchange and died at Beth Israel Hospital.
Donohue graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 2002, the Roanoke Times reported.
Real estate agent Jake Copty, who had been a cadet with Donohue, described him as a ‘super nice guy’ with a good sense of humor.
‘We had a lot of fun,’ he said. ‘The only rule we didn’t break was the honor code.’
Donohue also served in the Navy.
‘It’s a terrible thing,’ Copty said. ‘We’re hoping that he recovers.’
Copty said that he understood Donohue had left surgery but no officials statements have been made regarding his condition.
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Friday morning the school announced it was cancelling the day’s classes and urging employees to stay off campus.
The shooting came little more than three days after the twin bombings on the Boston Marathon that killed three people, wounded more than 180 others and led to an increase in security across the city.
About 11,000 people attend the prestigious university.
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Technology has affected our immediate responses to national tragedies
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If I had a dollar for every time I met someone who did not have a cell phone and/or a Facebook account, I would have a grand total of zero dollars. Living in the United States obviously plays a large role in this. This “era of the internet,” so to speak, has been used in many innovations and discoveries. Unfortunately, not all those uses have been for the good of humanity.
A prime example of this is the Steubenville rape case I wrote about a few weeks ago. In that case, the two teens that took advantage of an unconscious girl posted and distributed photos and video of the incident. It was to their own detriment, as the images were used as evidence in court, but it was also to the detriment of their victim.
The world of hurt a rape victim feels is undeniably worse when your attackers post video and pictures online, adding on to the misery.
I point to the tragedy in Boston on Monday as another example of the power technology and media hold. After the event, speculation ran rampant and photos and video began pouring in. One twitter account with the handle @Hope4Boston tweeted that two eight-year-olds had been killed in the bombing, which is not true. Another twitter account, @_BostonMarathon, posed as the organizers of the race and posted: “For every retweet we receive we will donate to #BostonMarathon victims.” That post was retweeted over 50,000 times by Monday evening, though Twitter has since disabled the account.
“Sometimes accidentally and sometimes maliciously, false information gets loose,” said Doug Gross in an article he penned for CNN. “And in the rapid-fire digital echo chamber, it does not take long to spread.”
Gross definitely understands the situation, since conflicting reports abounded in the time immediately after the bombing, and many are still circulating.
In spite of the Internet’s propensity for speculation and misinformation, the aftermath of the Boston marathon on Monday showed it is also a force for good. Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt wrote a Facebook post, which subsequently went viral. The post served to remind us of the good in the world, even when facing a tragedy like the one in Boston.
He concluded the post by saying, “So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, ‘The good outnumber you, and we always will.’ ”
Additional reports of heroes and positivity appeared elsewhere on the Internet as well. NBC Sports Network tweeted that there were reports of marathon runners who crossed the finish line and continued to run to Massachusetts General Hospital to donate blood. Many, and quite possibly most, of the photos and videos of the event showed at least one volunteer or first responder working to help those hurt by the blasts. Bostonians unaffected by the bombing took to the Internet to express messages of support and to offer their own homes to people who needed places to stay. Boston was hurt badly on Monday, and the nation managed to generate an incredible response thanks partly to social media.
The extent of social media’s influence is out of this world, quite literally. On Monday evening, after hearing of the bombing, Canadian astronaut and I.S.S. commander Chris Hadfield tweeted condolences, followed by a picture of Boston’s lights shining in the night with the caption “A somber night in Boston.” Thanks to our technology, even those in space are able to join the world and voice their condolences.
Those who seek to inspire terror in innocent Americans cannot control our reactions. Who is to blame is not nearly as important as acknowledging the heroics and gallantry of people when the chips are down. Whether it is an earthquake in Iran, or Haiti, or a bombing in Boston, people always find a way to be at their best when faced with those trying to do their worst, and social media is instrumental in showing this.
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