From the Publisher
Revolution in Higher Education would be a good book to start with for any campus contemplating going through a large strategic planning process. (And DeMillo is wonderfully incisive about the limitations of strategic planning). Both critics and fans of postsecondary disruption will be given plenty to react to in Revolution in Higher Education…. Your ideas and opinions will be better informed after reading this book.
Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Education
The author brings extensive experience and knowledgeable perspectives to the current problems with U.S. colleges and universities and institutions around the world that are mired in uncontrolled high costs, inappropriate traditional habits, and an unproductive focus on prestige and rankings…. DeMillo presents a well-informed account of the challenges and potential transformation in American higher education.
Library Journal
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The author brings extensive experience and knowledgeable perspectives to the current problems with U.S. colleges and universities and institutions around the world that are mired in uncontrolled high costs, inappropriate traditional habits, and an unproductive focus on prestige and rankings…. DeMillo presents a well-informed account of the challenges and potential transformation in American higher education.
Library Journal
Inside Higher Education - Joshua Kim
Revolution in Higher Education would be a good book to start with for any campus contemplating going through a large strategic planning process. (And DeMillo is wonderfully incisive about the limitations of strategic planning). Both critics and fans of postsecondary disruption will be given plenty to react to in Revolution in Higher Education…. Your ideas and opinions will be better informed after reading this book.
Library Journal
10/01/2015
DeMillo (Charlotte B. and Roger C. Warren Chair of Computing, Georgia Tech; Abelard to Apple) believes major changes are necessary to restructure higher education to be accessible, affordable, excellent, and fair. He outlines a chronicle for a revolution, beginning with the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other Internet-based innovations in 2012, along with a road map to the future. The author brings extensive experience and knowledgeable perspectives to the current problems with U.S. colleges and universities and institutions around the world that are mired in uncontrolled high costs, inappropriate traditional habits, and an unproductive focus on prestige and rankings. He introduces key education innovators including the founders of Coursera and edX and several forward-looking university presidents. His dense analysis emphasizes a central role for the Internet and other technologies and calls for a renewal of the social contract between universities and the communities they serve. VERDICT DeMillo presents a well-informed account of the challenges and potential transformation in American higher education. Interested readers might be better served by Michael Crow and William B. Dabars's Designing the New American University, which covers much of the same information in a more accessible and insightful manner.—Elizabeth Hayford, formerly with Associated Coll. of the Midwest, Evanston, IL