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A、Virtual Revolution IsBrewing forColleges
Students starting school this year may be part of the last generation for which "going to college" means packing up, getting a dorm room and listening to tenured (终身的) professors. Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering.Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet. The business model that sustained private U.S. colleges cannot survive.
The real force for change is the market: Online classes are just cheaper to produce.Community colleges and for-profit education entrepreneurs are already experimenting with dorm-free, commute-free options.Distance-learning technology will keep improving. Innovators have yet to tap the potential of the aggregator (信息汇集公司) to change the way students earn a degree,making the education business today look like the news business around 1999.And as major universities offer some core courses online,we’ll see a cultural shift toward acceptance of what is still, in some circles, a "University of Phoenix" joke.
This doesn’t just mean a different way of learning: The funding of academic research, the culture of the academy and the institution of tenure are all threateneD、
Both newspapers and universities have traditionally relied on selling hard-to-come-by information. Newspapers arrange advertising space next to breaking news, but now that advertisers find their customers onCraigslist andCars. corn, the main source of reporters’ pay is vanishing.Colleges also sell information, with a slightly different promise--a degree, a better job and access to brilliant minds.As with newspapers, some of these features are now available elsewhere.A、student can already access videotaped lectures, full courses and openly available syllabuses (课程大 纲) online.And in five or 10 years, the curious 18- (or 54-)year-old will be able to find dozens of quality online classes, complete with take-it-yourself tests, a bulletin board populated by other "students" , and links to free academic literature.
But the demand for college isn’t just about the yearning to learn--it’s also about the hope of getting a degree. Online qualifications cost a college less to provide. Schools don’t need to rent the space, and the excessive supply of doctoral students means they can employ them as instructors and pay a fraction of the salary for a tenured professor, and assume that they will rely on shared syllabuses. Those savings translate into cheaper tuition, and even before the recession, there was substantial evidence of unmet demand for cheaper college degrees. Online degrees are already relatively inexpensive.And the price will only dive in coming decades,as more universities compete.
You can already see significant innovation in online education at some community colleges and for-profit institutions. The community colleges are working with limited resources to maximize their offerings through Internet aggregation. For-profit institutions appear to be capitalizing on the high demand for low-cost degrees and the fact that few public schools do much traditional marketing.
These entrepreneurs are a little like the early online news sharers--bloggers, contributors to mailing lists and bulletin boards,profit seekers. Just as the new model of news separated "the article" from "the newspaper", the new model of college will separate "the class" from "the college".Classes are increasingly taken credit by credit, instead of in bulk--just as news is now read article by article.
Taking the newspaper analogy (类比) one step further, college aggregators will be the center of the new school experience. In the world of news, the aggregators have taken over from the newspaper as the entry point for news consumption.Already, half of college graduates attend more than one school before graduation. Soon you’ll see more Web sites that make it ea
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试题答案：close their doors 答案解析：[解析] 根据题干关键词partnerships with other kinds of services定位到第十一段最后一句：But within the next 40 vears，the majority of brick．and．mortar universities will probably find partnerships with other kinds of services，or close their doors．可知，在未来的四十年内，大多数美国的高校可能将与其他形式的服务进行合作，或者关门大吉。即如果不能与其他形式的服务进行合作，大多数学校将会倒闭。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
Students starting school this year may be part of the last generation for which "going to college" means packing up, getting a dorm room and listening to tenured (终身的) professors. Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering.Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet. The business model that sustained private U.S. colleges cannot survive.
The real force for change is the market: Online classes are just cheaper to produce.Community colleges and for-profit education entrepreneurs are already experimenting with dorm-free, commute-free options.Distance-learning technology will keep improving. Innovators have yet to tap the potential of the aggregator (信息汇集公司) to change the way students earn a degree,making the education business today look like the news business around 1999.And as major universities offer some core courses online,we’ll see a cultural shift toward acceptance of what is still, in some circles, a "University of Phoenix" joke.
This doesn’t just mean a different way of learning: The funding of academic research, the culture of the academy and the institution of tenure are all threateneD、
Both newspapers and universities have traditionally relied on selling hard-to-come-by information. Newspapers arrange advertising space next to breaking news, but now that advertisers find their customers onCraigslist andCars. corn, the main source of reporters’ pay is vanishing.Colleges also sell information, with a slightly different promise--a degree, a better job and access to brilliant minds.As with newspapers, some of these features are now available elsewhere.A、student can already access videotaped lectures, full courses and openly available syllabuses (课程大 纲) online.And in five or 10 years, the curious 18- (or 54-)year-old will be able to find dozens of quality online classes, complete with take-it-yourself tests, a bulletin board populated by other "students" , and links to free academic literature.
But the demand for college isn’t just about the yearning to learn--it’s also about the hope of getting a degree. Online qualifications cost a college less to provide. Schools don’t need to rent the space, and the excessive supply of doctoral students means they can employ them as instructors and pay a fraction of the salary for a tenured professor, and assume that they will rely on shared syllabuses. Those savings translate into cheaper tuition, and even before the recession, there was substantial evidence of unmet demand for cheaper college degrees. Online degrees are already relatively inexpensive.And the price will only dive in coming decades,as more universities compete.
You can already see significant innovation in online education at some community colleges and for-profit institutions. The community colleges are working with limited resources to maximize their offerings through Internet aggregation. For-profit institutions appear to be capitalizing on the high demand for low-cost degrees and the fact that few public schools do much traditional marketing.
These entrepreneurs are a little like the early online news sharers--bloggers, contributors to mailing lists and bulletin boards,profit seekers. Just as the new model of news separated "the article" from "the newspaper", the new model of college will separate "the class" from "the college".Classes are increasingly taken credit by credit, instead of in bulk--just as news is now read article by article.
Taking the newspaper analogy (类比) one step further, college aggregators will be the center of the new school experience. In the world of news, the aggregators have taken over from the newspaper as the entry point for news consumption.Already, half of college graduates attend more than one school before graduation. Soon you’ll see more Web sites that make it ea
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试题答案：close their doors 答案解析：[解析] 根据题干关键词partnerships with other kinds of services定位到第十一段最后一句：But within the next 40 vears，the majority of brick．and．mortar universities will probably find partnerships with other kinds of services，or close their doors．可知，在未来的四十年内，大多数美国的高校可能将与其他形式的服务进行合作，或者关门大吉。即如果不能与其他形式的服务进行合作，大多数学校将会倒闭。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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