Dr. Sadler's Philosophy Forum Session 6 (with special guest, Robert Skiff - CEO of Oplerno)
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Channel: Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy · 2014 · Education
In the sixth Dr. Sadler's Philosophy Forum, we discussed a topic that is often in the news these days -- college and university education, which gets portrayed as absolutely essential, a waste of time, every person's right, a product for the privileged few, and everything in between. My guest for this installment is Robert Skiff, the CEO of Oplerno, a new for-profit education company which has developed a new model which puts the work and needs of adjunct professors and their students first. (full disclosure -- I'm currently developing an Existentialism course for Oplerno myself). We'll ranged over a number of topics -- the unsustainability of the current education system, the problems with some of the proposed "game-changers" (think, e.g. MOOCs), the needs of students and how they're not being met, the crushing burden (and bubble) of student debt. . . . and perhaps even what education ought to be about. . . .
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