Part two:
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Professor Walter Lewin's lecture, "The Birth and Death of Stars," is available to the public via MIT World. Online lectures are a relatively new way of granting individuals not affiliated with a university the chance to learn from them.
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As students grapple with the high costs of college, and universities work to cope with increasing demand, could a new model for higher education be on the way? Or is it already here?
We speak with Walter Lewin, the MIT professor who has broken ground by making his lectures accessible via television and the Web, bringing his teaching to millions of people; the founder of an education hub that's entirely online; and the president of a Massachusetts college that has consistently pushed the envelope in finding new ways to teach — and fund — its students.
Guests:
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Walter Lewin, emeritus professor of physics, MIT Department of Physics (find many of Prof. Lewin's online lectures here)
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Peter Hopkins, co-founder, The Floating University
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Richard Miller, president, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
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Clayton Christensen, professor, Harvard Business School; co-author, "The Innovative University"
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