MOOCs, college costs, and the future of higher education - Publication Date |
- May 07, 2015
- Episode Duration |
- 00:41:37
“Ten years from now college is going to look a lot different,” says Senior Fellow in this podcast. Butler, an expert on the future of higher education, economic mobility, budget process reform, and federal entitlement reform, explains how developments in education technology, such as MOOCs, are driving college costs down, changing university business models, and could have a dramatic effect on social mobility in this country. “If you have a higher education system that actually does provide students with the skills they really need at a much lower cost than today,” he says, “that’s good for everybody, and good for the economy.”
Plus, in "Wessel's Economic Update," , director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, discusses the re-release of Arthur Okun's classic book, "."
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