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| English: Student protest on the premises of the University of Bamberg: (German) "Only Chuck Norris manages to achieve a bachelor's degree in scheduled time." Deutsch: Studentenprotest auf dem Gelände der Universität Bamberg: "Nur Chuck Norris schafft den Bachelor in Regelstudienzeit". (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Dissertation-Can-No-Longer/137215/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Others are proposing undergraduate programs in which the major is replaced by a collection of inter-related minors.
Some schools are now prepared to accord transfer credit to MOOCs.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/georgia-state-u-to-grant-course-credit-for-moocs/41795
For students who can't afford the traditional, four-year, residential bachelor's degree experience, piecing together a diploma may be the only alternative... and perhaps could be a good one.
If the grads get hired, online doctorates sans dissertation are bound to catch on.
When it all shakes out, ability will prevail, I suppose... provided able people are able to pry open that first door.
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