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Change Starts Within ~ 15 min
The Future of Higher Education & How Kids Are Getting Wise to Student Load Debt ~ 19 min
How Free Online Courses Are Changing Traditional Education ~ 11 min
TED: Bunker Roy, founder of Barefoot College ~ 19 min

Leaving College For Good Was The Best Choice I Made. Here’s Why

Forbes: Jobs of the Future Don't Require a College Degree

Forbes article on Udacity which intends to create a master's degree for $100.

The Coming Twilight Of The Four-Year College

Need a Job? Invent It

Kids, go to college or you’ll die alone in misery

[If money was no object]


Pocket College

247 lectures by Dr R.J. Rushdoony on Systematic Theology: Authority, Church, Covenant, Creation and Providence, Eschatology, Family, Salvation, Sin, The Land, The State, and Work. http://www.pocketcollege.com/index.htm

Free MIT Courses

MIT publishes virtually ALL of its course materials online for free. You can take hundreds of college course completely free, in your own time.

Exosphere

Forget about college...that ship is going down! Exosphere and Exobase are programs to inspire entrepreneuralism through technical skill acquisition, real business practice, and deep philosophical and intellectual reflection. Watch 35-minute interview.

Programmers/Bitcoin

"Bitcoin as an industry is generating thousands of jobs and lots of start-ups that are doing very new and interesting things that have never been done before. And that means a lot to young people who are entering the workforce for the first time. That means that here are a set of skills that they can learn and gain from that will give them opportunities for employment...and that's really exciting. It's a bit like learning to develop an iOS application six or seven years ago or how to develop an HTML website 15 years ago. It's the kind of skills you can build and launch a career on.

— November 9, 2014: Andreas Anonopoulos describing the Master of Science in Digital Currency offered online to students worldwide by University of Nicosia in Cypress. Listen to entire interview.

Video: A Million Killer Apps - Bitcoin's Big Bang of Disruption - Part 1 of 2
















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