I think Reid is right. I can see a future when all of a person's skills, gained from college and beyond, get aggregated; much like a Coinstar machine collects all the change you pour in and spits out a total sum, we will some day pour all of our various skills, experiences, and milestones into a Degreestar machine, and out will pop a degree equivalent, be it an MIT CS degree, or a Stanford MBA. In this brave new world, many college professors will become free agents, doling out individual course credits to be collected by a trusted aggregator--be it a Harvard, or maybe even LinkedIn.I see a future for trusted aggregator Fox University™, and finally real employment for Professor Jeff Goldstein.
Bonus twaddle:
In some ways, TED is the Harvard of our times.Which way is that?
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Oh jeebus. It's like a geeky antisocial glibertarian's wet dream.
I doubt that TED can match the damage Harvard B School did to the economy.
Does it have Innovation in its DNA?
Can there be any problem at all in professors being able to dispense credit while, say, conducting a transaction at the BMW dealership?
Do we provide any allowance for individuals who actually, oh, I dunno, benefit from LinkedIn?
Because I'd like to be all ideologically pure n shit, a lefty to stand against all those nasty teabaggers, but I'm trying to get/keep a job here.
Or is that no longer permitted?
Linkedin avoidance is more about safety than politics: I have no objections at all to doing what you need to do to put food on the table. Which includes all manner of things I guess.
I thought Harvard was the present-day Harvard.
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