Is This The Future Of College: Online Classes, But No Degree

By MARIA DANILOVA, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle
Sun, 04/30/2017 - 5:02am

With college costs rising steadily and with more courses available online for free, some observers are beginning to question the need for a traditional college education that may include lectures on Greek philosophy but burden graduates with massive student Education startups are offering alternatives — from boot camps, to one or two-year tracks, to accredited degree programs — and their founders say these options will give students a more relevant education in today's job market, and at a lower price. Minerva, an accredited four-year university named after the Greek goddess of wisdom, wants to reinvent elite four-year liberal arts education by teaching critical thinking as opposed to "regurgitating information," founder Ben Nelson said. Minerva students start school in San Francisco and then spend time in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Taipei, Taiwan, and other global hubs, continuing to take online classes and completing hands-on assignments at local companies and organizations. Tuition is $29,000 per year for tuition plus room and board, compared with an average of $20,000 for an in-state public college and to $63,000 at Harvard, with which Minerva says it wants to compete. Some question Minerva's ability to teach science without labs or test tubes and believe that academic research requires the space and environment afforded by traditional universities. Peter Cappelli, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who studies the U.S.

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