{"449041":{"#nid":"449041","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Richard DeMillo Explores the Evolving Role of Colleges","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe idea that change was afoot for higher education burst on the public consciousness in 2012 with Sebastian Thrun\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2012\/02\/09\/thrun-starts-web-based-university\/\u0022\u003Eannouncement\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that he had resigned his professorship at Stanford to begin offering free, high-quality college courses to the world. It was a bold statement, but it was only the first. Stanford and MIT each announced shortly afterward that they were offering MOOCs. Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, became a spokesman for\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/video\/conversations_with_slate\/2012\/10\/salman_khan_on_the_youtube_lectures_and_teaching_tools_that_power_the_khan_academy_s_mission_to_revolutionize_education_video_.html\u0022\u003Eshort-format lectures\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that would reach millions. Start-up capital poured into research labs and storefront software companies more reminiscent of the early days of the Internet than of the staid, bureaucratically top-heavy business of running a college. The difference captured the attention of international news media.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28124","created_gmt":"2015-09-16 22:29:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:41","author":"Tyler Sharp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"You in The News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Gatekeepers-No-More-Colleges\/232975\/","dateline":{"date":"2015-09-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-09-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"389881":{"id":"389881","type":"image","title":"Rich DeMillo Headshot - Book Release","body":null,"created":"1449246288","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:24:48","changed":"1475894378","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:38","alt":"Rich DeMillo Headshot - Book Release","file":{"fid":"75512","name":"rich_demillo_book_release.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rich_demillo_book_release.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rich_demillo_book_release.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1703089,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/rich_demillo_book_release.jpg?itok=cXFTp4iN"}}},"media_ids":["389881"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"141631","name":"Richard DeMillo; Sebastian Thrun; Udacity; Chronicle of Higher Education; Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable; MOOCs"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}