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Business Daily: Goodbye Snooz-iversity?

25/07/2013

Goodbye Snooz-iversity?

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Goodbye Snooz-iversity?

Is it curtains for traditional university courses? Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales thinks it is

Could online degrees spell the end for traditional campus-based university courses? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales thinks they could.

Could online degrees spell the end for an increased number of traditional campus-based university courses? Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, tells Justin Rowlatt why he thinks they could. And, Professor Eric Mazur, dean of physics at Harvard explains why he disagrees. 

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