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Stephen Downes

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With protests in the street in Montreal, rising student loan debts, and increasing government austerity, the university is under more pressure than ever to do the impossible: deliver a quality education to all at a price that will neither bankrupt students nor bankrupt nations. "Universities will inevitably adapt and modify, as they have for the past 800 years, because they will have to do so to survive. The trick will be to do so without destroying all the good things they have achieved for Canadians, and the world, over the last half century."

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