Dr. Thrun makes no mention of the dramatic funding cuts that have degraded the educational services he claims to fix. Nor, naturally, does he mention his own role in convincing major state politicians like California’s governor and Senate President Pro Tem that they don’t need to reverse cuts to improve public university quality. The Georgia Tech spreadsheets are (very incomplete) proof that online technology cannot make up for massive public funding cuts. So now, in many states, public universities are in limbo–not saved by a MOOC cost revolution that has not materialized, and yet impoverished by a MOOC-fed consensus that the “traditional” college is dead. For example, Iowa’s governor invoked online technology in vetoing capital expenditures for pharmacy, biosciences, and education buildings…

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by Chris Newfield, Remaking the University.

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