The Future of Higher Education

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Gol famous for inventing their own ice tests that you have to solve these weird abstract reasoning problems. I don't know about the future of, of a long term future of higher education post covid this is what your last article for us was about. It's not clear. I mean, i don't think the big ones are going to go out of business. Some of the smaller universities and colleges that were kind of on the margin financially already,. once their p p p loans are all dried up and they're not getting any more government money, i guess, you know, they think lot of m goes out of business.

Michael Shermer speaks with Chris Edwards about educational reform, his study and teaching of world history, the problems in K–12 education, the zip-code model vs. the seat time model of education and how they result in massively different educational outcomes, how “no child left behind” left children behind, federal vs. state educational systems, cheating scandals and what to do about them, the future of education in a world of free (or nearly free) online learning, comparing the U.S. educational system to other countries. Shermer and Edwards also discuss thought experiments, based on Edwards’ latest book, Thought Experiments: History and Applications for Education.