Online education: You get what you pay for
by Brian Fogerty In a June appearance on "The Daily Show," Governor Tim Pawlenty outlined his vision of higher education of the future: "Do you really think in 20 years somebody’s going to put on their backpack, drive a half-hour to the University of Minnesota from the suburbs, haul their keister across campus and sit and listen to some boring person drone on about Econ 101 or Spanish 101? … Can’t I just pull that down from my iPhone or iPad whenever the heck I feel like it and from wherever I feel like, and instead of paying thousands of […]