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Re:Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College by Moto7451 on Friday November 30, 2012 @10:19AM (#4853526)
I think your criticism isn't completely fair. I'm fairly certain that the narrow design and location of his thought experiment is because he is most familiar with the finance and tech industries (His degrees are in Math, EE, and Business). He's clearly spent a lot of time in school and is familiar with his pain points and would like to fix them (for better or worse)[1].

If I was in the same position I wouldn't bother expunging my ideas about what would make a better art school because I'm clueless about art schools.

[1]My experience has been that Community Colleges already do a lot of what he's suggesting (at least mine did) and I doubt his university style campus could compete on cost with a CC.

edit: forgot that asterisks italicize text.

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Re:Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College by btilly on Friday November 30, 2012 @02:30PM (#4854991)
My experience has been that Community Colleges already do a lot of what he's suggesting (at least mine did) and I doubt his university style campus could compete on cost with a CC.

I bet it is the other way around.

Smart potential mentors know the value of finding good people early, I don't think that will cost nearly as much as you would fear.

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Re:Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College by mcburton on Friday November 30, 2012 @10:59AM (#4853743)
"My experience has been that Community Colleges already do a lot of what he's suggesting"

That was my thought exactly. The CC system is quite good at educating people, yet, I feel like many folks pontificating about the "future of education" focus only on "Research 1," or more correctly, doctoral granting universities with very high research activity[1].

[1] "Research 1" is a deprecated, although still widely used, term from the Carnegie Classifications of Higher Education. http://classifications.carnegiefoundation.org/descriptions/b...

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