The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere

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		The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere
		The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere

From a renowned education writer comes a paradigm-shifting examination of the rapidly changing world of college that every parent, student, educator, and investor needs to understand.

Over the span of just nine months in 2011 and 2012, the world’s most famous universities and high-powered technology entrepreneurs began a race to revolutionize higher education. College courses that had been kept for centuries from all but an elite few were released to millions of students throughout the world—for free.

Exploding college prices and a flagging global economy, combined with the derring-do of a few intrepid innovators, have created a dynamic climate for a total rethinking of an industry that has remained virtually unchanged for a hundred years. In The End of College, Kevin Carey, an education researcher and writer, draws on years of in-depth reporting and cutting-edge research to paint a vivid and surprising portrait of the future of education. Carey explains how two trends—the skyrocketing cost of college and the revolution in information technology—are converging in ways that will radically alter the college experience, upend the traditional meritocracy, and emancipate hundreds of millions of people around the world. 

Insightful, innovative, and accessible, The End of College is a must-read, and an important contribution to the developing conversation about education in this country.

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This is not just the best book on education that I have read, I'd put it in my top 50 non-fiction books ever. Informative, challenging, great breadth of research, and colorful first-personal stories make it a gripping read.

Carey starts by describing his experience taking at MIT, then continues with a history of the American university model, and predicts its demise in a comprehensive (if sometimes a little ramshackle) argument. The most useful part of the book might be the up-to-the-minute who-is-who in the EdTech sector - and some of the most exciting developments up until 2014.

One might say that in covering the psychology of learning, the history of the university, the history of online learning, the history of the internet (a little), and a thorough description of today's playing field is too ambitious - "one inch deep, and one mile wide". Yet the breadth, and (ok) lack of depth are precisely what is needed in this time of great tumult (and threat) to the American university.

Change is coming to US education - yet the sector is (structurally) the most conservative I have ever encountered (as a consultant-strategist). By "structurally" I mean accreditation, the tenure process, fiercely protected cultures, budget constraints, fearful trustees and governors. It has managed to resist the 21st century successfully so far - will it be able to do so for another generation. I think not, and neither does Carey.

Now for the shameless self-plug. "The fact that someone in a hut in Kigali with a broadband connection can take a course from Andrew Ng (Stanford) in Machine Learning FOR FREE is one of the most transformational inventions since the printing press." (Paul Gibbons - The Science of Organizational Change)

If you have spent time thinking about how technology will interact with higher education and you have not yet read this book, your thoughts are incomplete.

Highly recommended to both parents and educators; a great overview of what the years to come have in store in regard to higher education.

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