Technology, they say, eliminates the middle-man. Fair enough. But from a certain perspective, everyone can be seen as the middle-man. That's why major publishers, instead of seeing themselves as the intermediaries between author and reader, see see schools, colleges and universities as the intermediary between themselves and students. What does this mean, in practice? How about degrees handed out, not by some university, but by Thompson, Pearson or Kaplan (which such reorganized and rebanded its learning units this week). Far-fetched? Well, it would be, except that, as this story reports, Pearson is already doing it.
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