What's wrong with college education?

The cover story of the recent Time magazine, "College Is Dead. Long Live College!" (US edition only) has a lot of cautionary and inspiring reports on higher education. It should be advisable that this article be translated into Chinese for all education providers, especially the policy decision-makers, in human-capital-oriented Taiwan. It reveals several astounding fact-findings in education suc

h as effectiveness of cognitive brain-learning teaching approach, methodologies of online courses on two extreme ends of spectrum in terms of one final goal, "Did you actually learn?", blight future for most of the colleges, except for the top 50, due to one lingering question, "Is the prohibitive college tuition really justified for what I have learned?", how a class in a not-even-being-ranked university can offer a better learning experience than big-name universities, and many other revelations such as "not one of the course's 400 top performers has a Stanford address" in an online course that Stanford Uni. students participated, even the participating Stanford students had a much better average grade than the same previous year's Stanford traditional in-class course. Looking forward to the more reports from the results of Time's cooperation with Carnegie Corp. and Bill & Melinda Gate Foundation.