...Will the Web Kill Colleges? The argument presented in “Will the Web Kill Colleges?” discusses the changing of traditional colleges over online colleges by using the internet as the main source of contact and interaction. A few points are made in the article that stands out. Such as, there is an overwhelmingly high demand of cheaper college in today’s economy and that the internet is become a preferred method of completing a degree. The method in which redundancies can be removed is also discussed. As well as, how online colleges offer a varied range of classes, which satisfies learners choosing to go to school. The key point of Teachout’s argument is whether or not the Web will kill Colleges. According to the author Zephyr, “undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering” (Chaffee, p.91, para 2). Zephyr states that colleges will be torn apart by the Internets new ways of sharing information. Classes are slowly changing from an in class setting to an online setting that may become permanent over the next 15 years. The author also states “colleges are becoming more virtual” (Chaffee, p.91, para 3). Traditional Colleges will experience a decline in enrollment and since they are depending on tuition this will hurt them tremendously. You don’t have to be in a classroom to do research, ask questions and receive lectures to gain a full learning experience. “The funding of academic research, the culture of the academy and the institution of tenure are all threatened”...
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...“Will the Web Kill Colleges?” Will the Web Kill the Cupcake Business? Marlo Thomas In “Will the Web Kill Colleges?” by Zephyr Teachout (Chaffee, p. 91), the author is trying to argue that traditional brick-and-mortar schools will be replaced with online-base learning. The strongest point being made is that because of economic changes, the economy is slowing down, fewer learners wanting to take out student loans and aid being cut to universities; it will be more cost-effective for them to implement online-base learning. These classrooms are easy to manage and navigate for learners, with the plethora of access to resources online such as, “…access to videotaped lectures, full courses, free articles, openly available syllabi online—as well as books that can be searched and borrowed from libraries around the world.” (Chaffee, p. 91) It is also noted that online courses are at a cost savings that are drastically lower then living on campus. Five years ago, close to 4-million learners participated in at least one online learning experience, those numbers are probably double that in 2012. Even right now, every person in this the Capella MBA program is doing this very same thing, learning online. The schools shifting to this new model of learning are ones that middle-income and lower-income learners attend, state schools and local community colleges. Those state schools and local community colleges are experiencing heavy...
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...Analyzing the Impact of the Web Lutricia Hunter Capella University ABSTRACT The development of the web has dramatically changed the way society acquires and publishes information. This has had both positive and negative impacts on education. As the information available on the web expands, the number of industries that it will impact will also increase. Traditional brick and mortar school buildings as we know them today will gradually become a thing of the past as society transcends into the age of convenience. In the presented assignment I will be analyzing “Will the Web Kill Colleges?” This assignment will describe the key points of the author’s argument, analyze the aspects of the author’s argument that I agree with, analyze the gaps or challenges that I see in the author’s argument, implications for education, and potential ethical questions raised by the author’s vision of the future. The development of the web has dramatically changed the way society acquires and publishes information. This has had both positive and negative impacts on education. As the information available on the web expands, the number of industries that it will impact will also increase. Traditional brick and mortar school buildings as we know them today will gradually become a thing of the past as society transcends into the age of convenience. In the present assignment I will be analyzing “Will the Web Kill Colleges?” This assignment will describe the key points of the author’s argument...
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...Will the Web Kill Colleges? Zephyr Teachout In the article, “Will the Web Kill Colleges?,” the author explains her views on whether the Internet will replace the traditional classroom style setting at colleges. The author begins by stating, “Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet” (p. 91). The author argues that online education will replace classroom settings in 10-15 years from now. I agree with the author’s point that a student does not have to necessarily sit in a classroom to ask a question or view lecture material. Students can readily “access videotaped lectures, full courses, free articles and openly available syllabi online-as well as books that can be searched and borrowed from libraries from around the world” (p. 91). The author continues to point out that many students attend school in “hopes of getting a degree” (p. 93). Online degrees have cheaper tuition costs, which is the major factor in determining which college one can attend. The author also points out that “new Internet efficiencies will lead to fewer researchers and professors” (p. 93), eliminating the redundant classes being taught at different universities. A handful of similar lectures will be videotaped and used in courses worldwide, eliminating the student to professor contact. In my opinion, this could create a large gap in learning...
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...Will the Web Kill Colleges? In this paper I will examine the article written by Zephyr Teachout entitled “Will the Web Kill Colleges”. The key point of Teachout’s argument is whether or not the Web will kill Colleges. According to the author Zephyr, “undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering” (Chaffee, p.91, para 2). Zephyr states that colleges will be torn apart by the Internets new ways of sharing information. Classes are slowly changing from an in class setting to an online setting that may become permanent over the next 15 years. The author also states “colleges are becoming more virtual” (Chaffee, p.91, para 3). Traditional Colleges will experience a decline in enrollment and since they are depending on tuition this will hurt them tremendously. You don’t have to be in a classroom to do research, ask questions and receive lectures to gain a full learning experience. “The funding of academic research, the culture of the academy and the institution of tenure are all threatened” (Chaffee, p.96, para 4). The evidence used by the author to support his argument is the cost of getting a online degree are relatively inexpensive compared to traditional college. For example, “in state online undergraduate completion degree offered by the East Carolina University costs only $99 per credit hour which is a base of $1200 a year” (Chaffee, p.92, para 2). And the author also believes that the price will “only dive in coming decades as more universities compete...
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...Selling Human Organ A farmer in an Indian village wants more than anything else in the world to send his child to college. To raise money, he sells his spare kidney to an American in need of a transplant. A few years later, as the farmer’s second child approaches college age, another buyer comes to his village and offers a handsome price for his second kidney. Should he be free to sell that one, too, even if going without a kidney would kill him (Sandel 72)? Some might object that, regardless of whether the practice already exists, it is clear that legalizing it would make it worse. Not only that, but it seems like the person would become like a marketplace selling his organs. If someone had mentioned that they want to donate their kidney to someone and dies, then it is fine. Then suppose that the person starts selling his kidney or any other organ of his body. Basically he or she is doing it for money, but what if the person's other kidney got damaged? Then what would the person do? Besides it will be a stronger cause of corruption because many people are poor and need money to feed their families so they sell their kidneys; however, this may cause future health problems to that person. Selling organs is wrong and it should not be allowed. Selling an organ is menacing, even for those organs which can be removed without killing the donor. Murphy say,“isn’s it more dangerous to have black market organ transactions?”(1). This is normally the first protestation embossed after...
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...Stewart ENG 1101 – Composition and Rhetoric (21163) 14 November 2015 Analysis of Paul Grayson and Phil Meilman’s “Guns and Student Safety” Thesis: Guns should not be allowed on college campuses to keep suicide, homicide, and accidental death rates down. I. College students are roughly half as likely to kill themselves. a. Grayson and Meilman states that depressed students are less likely to commit suicide if they only have access to razors and pills (Grayson & Meilman, 2013). b. College students who are suicidal may be able to get the help they need instead of having easy access to handguns. c. Having handguns make it easier for depressed or suicidal students to end their misery. II. College campus homicide rate will rise significantly if students had easy access to handguns. d. There are many angry students who may want to pointlessly kill their peers (Grayson & Meilman, 2013). e. Troubled students who may want to retaliate can easily do so if they had CHL (concealed handgun licenses). f. Mentally ill students are also individuals that we have to pay more attention to if the ban on guns in school is lifted. III. The rate of accidental deaths are higher than college mass shooting rates (Grayson & Meilman, 2013). g. College students may be more careless when “showing” their handgun off to fellow classmates which could end up in an accidental shooting. h. There are many students who party hard and...
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...Victoria Heckel Professor Baldassare English 201 4 April 2014 Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird: The Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee in 1960. Lee’s early life influenced a lot of what was introduced in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, although she made a point that this was not an autobiographical novel. Throughout her life Lee shows similarities in characters in the story as well as ones she’s grown up with. Lee addresses prejudice and tolerance and especially the courage it takes to make societal change. These ideas combined with her personal experiences is what probably won her Pulitzer prize winning novel. Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. Her mother, Frances Cunningham Finch Lee, was a homemaker. For most of Lee's life, her mother suffered from mental illness, rarely leaving the house. It is believed that she may have had bipolar disorder (Harper Lee 1). Her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, practiced law, a member of the Alabama state legislature (Lee, Harper 2). She grew up as a tomboy in a small town, which she fought on the playground, and talked back to teachers. She was bored with school and resisted any sort of conformity. Truman Capote was one of Lee’s closest childhood friends, Lee often stepped up to protect Truman from other boys his age that picked on him for the fancy clothes be wore and also for being a sissy. The two were different but they both shared in having difficult home...
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...discussions in aesthetics, political philosophy, theology, cosmology, epistemology, and the philosophy of language (Plato par 1). Although Plat existed way “Before Christ Existed” and even before the New Testament was developed, his philosophy seems to have some sort of relation to The New Testament and as Professor Shandon Guthrie mentioned the New Testament for a fact was influenced by Greek philosophers, especially Plato. Their commonalities involve their belief of the immortality of our human souls and dualism, the theory that human beings are made up of two independent constituents, the body and the mind or soul. These facts will present how Plato and the New Testament had relations of their views. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matthew 10:28, NIV). Firstly, stated this bible verse it emphasizes to not fear the “One” who destroys both soul and body, but also let us focus on the part that states ‘body and soul’. Plat believed in the dualism, and as previously stated it a theory that humans have two parts, the body and the soul. Also, the bible states in Ephesians 4:4 that “there is one body and one Spirit”, the spirit being internal to the soul, meaning there are indeed, two...
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...an expected standard. A business that does not utilize the web at even the lowest level is at a huge disadvantage. At a minimum, a small town retail operator would enjoy increased sales by simply having an informational website to answer the customers’ basic questions. Where is the business, what are the hours, what is offered et cetera. Moving forward and expanding further from the low-level perspective of the use of information technology and offer strategic recommendations to the bio-technology pharmaceutical operations of XYZ Pharmaceutical Inc. Included in the recommendation will be training, human resources, and regulatory considerations. In a past analysis of Zephyr Teachout’s article “Will the Web Kill Colleges?” it was concluded that the Chaffee’s argument regarding the future minimization or extinction of the traditional brick and mortar college is a very real possibility. Furthermore, He explains the increasing utilization of online based college courses and in fact many course becoming hard to attend except in an online environment. Teachout’s argument regarding the proliferation of online college is supported with several examples. Teachout compares online college to newspapers concerning how information is shared. Why would a student commute or even move to attend class when they can attend class in the comfort of their home or from a Starbucks? In addition to rapid information retrieval, online college can be offered much cheaper than most brick and mortar. A...
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...OF THE WEB Christine Amill Capella University ANALYZING THE IMPACT OF THE WEB The purpose of this paper is to discuss, and briefly analyze Zephry Teachout’s (2009) article, “Will the Web Kill Colleges”. It explores the different ways students are pursuing higher education, and examines the effects online education is having on traditional brick and mortar colleges. Teachout (2009) projects that over the next fifteen years, traditional brick and mortar institutions will offer a larger selection of online courses. The amount of online Colleges and Universities are also expected to increase during this time. George Leef (2013) states “Technological change has made online coursework very competitive with the traditional means of teaching”. He also argues that with the way online education is improving, more students will participate in the type of learning they want, when and where they want to (Leef, 2013). Eventually students will be able to attend the College or University of their choice globally. They will no longer have to worry about traveling, or paying for dorm room expenses. All of this will ultimately affect brick and mortar colleges in a negative way (Teachout, 2009). Teachout (2009) seems to argue in favor of the online learning environment. He claims that the pros outweigh the cons. A few of his key arguments include: lower tuition, increased flexibility, less course redundancy, and the amount of free resources that are available over the web. Having...
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...Sydney As I have grown up, some very tragic things have happened in this world. The one thing that always has taken an emotional toll on people is the terrorist attack on 9/11. Every year on that day, we remember the people that we lost and we replay all the horrible things that happened. This attack lead to several wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the men and women who fought for our country during these wars should always be remembered for the sacrifices they have made. Many veterans today do not have jobs, homes, or families because of their illnesses and inabilities to conform back into their normal lives. Although many Veteran Organizations think that they are doing more than enough for our soldiers, the US government needs to focus more on the soldier’s care after returning home because they are the ones who took care of America in our time of need. As all of the tours ended in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, surviving soldiers began to return home, well the United States, not what people would typically consider “home.” Rodenbush and Dillon state that, “Data collected during the annual Point-in-Time Count conducted in January 2014 shows there were 49,933 homeless veterans in America.” There are several reasons as to why this many veterans are homeless. First, because a large amount of soldiers are returning home with brain injuries, PTSD or TBI, they have a greater inability to find jobs; without any kind of job, the veterans have no choice but to live on the streets...
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...The first known writing of Greek mythology was dated back to around the time of the Trojan War. Homer and Hesiod were two of the most well-known writers of Greek mythology and epic poetry. Although a lot of information is debatable about him, Homer was the first known person to write Greek literature. Homer has many claimed birthplaces. Among the most popular are Smyrna and Ionia. His main theme was the Trojan War between the Greek and Trojans. Even though he may have been blind, Homer is considered responsible for two of the most well-known books of Greek myth; Iliad and the Odyssey and Homeric Hymns which were short poems celebrating the various gods. The Iliad is a story of the siege of the city of Troy during the Trojan War. The Odyssey is the story of Odysseus, a warrior, and his ten year journey from Troy to Ithaca after the fall of Troy in the Trojan War (“The Life and Work of Homer”). Hesiod is along the side of Homer when it comes to the creation of the Greek gods. He was said to be born after Homer. He was a shepherd who worked in the mountains of Helicon. He got his inspiration to write epic poetry from an experience he had on the mountain where he met the Muses that appeared before him in a mist after the death of his father. Two of his most famous works were Theogony and Works and Days. Theogony is the story of the creation of the Greek gods and their evolution. His second story, Works and Days, was about the struggle between him and his brother over the property...
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...dialogue on the train. Clay questions what they are going to talk about “endlessly” and Lula replies “your manhood”. From this exchange in conversation, we can see that Baraka is trying to construct and define black “manhood”. This type of masculinity can be described as tough, assertive, uncompromising and virile in addition to separating ones self from weak and effeminized men. Baraka and the leaders of the Black Power movement associated themselves with such definitions of manhood in order to recuperate some degree of power over long time notions of subordination created by racism. In Clay’s monologue we see how he rejects and separates himself from the less masculine men. Amidst his rant of telling Lula how he is going to kill her, he also threatens to kill the “weak-faced ofays”. Clay recognizes that these “weak-faced ofays” are separate from him and by doing so he asserts a definition of...
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...Publicizing the opportunity of the employment The opportunity in the showing administration is publicized to advance reasonable and open rivalry and give the best chance to draw in a wide field of candidates. Occasionally the college will promote in the every day statewide press and the oxford college site to advise potential candidates of the accessibility of opening. The promotion will be for the benefit of the considerable number of divisions demonstrating that opportunities are interested in every single qualified candidate and allude intrigued candidates to opening data through enlistment on the web. Utilizing the enlistment office can be a viable technique in specific circumstances. The choice ought to be talked about and concurred with the HR supervisor. This strategy does not kill the need to promote inside of the college. Any outer organizations or advisors need to act as per the strategy and admiration for equivalent open door prerequisites. Competitors ought to be given full data of the post to settle on an educated choice with respect to how suitable they are for the...
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