Name: Rethinking Higher Education: University 2.0
Uploaded: 2011-04-18T19:04:28-04:00
Description: This video companion to Richard N. Katz’s E-Book “The Tower and the Cloud” explores how computing power has reduced our reliance on traditional brick-and-mortar institutions in favor of new and […]

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This video companion to Richard N. Katz’s E-Book “The Tower and the Cloud” explores how computing power has reduced our reliance on traditional brick-and-mortar institutions in favor of new and emerging virtual ones.

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