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Will Online Learning Lead to College Closures? Clay Shirky Says It’s Complicated.

February 2, 2022

Via: Ed Surge

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It’s popular these days to argue that a pandemic boost of online education will lead to a wave of college closures. Most colleges just aren’t changing fast enough, the theory goes, and many are risking extinction.

But this kind of rhetoric irks Clay Shirky, the vice provost for educational technologies at New York University and an influential voice on how technology is changing our culture. He thinks the situation is far more complicated than many pundits let on.

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