Around the Web: College Reinvented, Shirky on MOOCs, Newspapers & citizenship and more apocalypse

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Or, more precisely, a university designed by libertarians. Over the last number of months, I've featured a fair bit of apocalyptic MOOC Disruptionism in my regular Around the Web posts. Recently, the libertarian think tank, The Cato Institute (Wikipedia) via their Cato Unbound site, has put online…
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