Clay Shirky, the vice provost for educational technologies at New York University and an influential voice on how technology is changing our culture. He thinks the situation is far more complicated than many pundits let on. “I see people starting with assumptions about what online education can or should do to the price of a college education, and I think not only is what they're saying wrong, but the background assumptions they're making about how higher ed works are not even in line with what the American system actually does,” says Shirky.
