Georgia Tech, top 10 in CS, to offer $6,000 masters degree online

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<p>[Georgia</a> Tech?s Computer Science MOOC: The super-cheap master?s degree that could change American higher education. - Slate Magazine](<a href=“http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/07/georgia_tech_s_computer_science_mooc_the_super_cheap_master_s_degree_that.html]Georgia”>Georgia Tech’s Computer Science MOOC: The super-cheap master’s degree that could change American higher education.)</p>

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Georgia Institute of Technology is about to take a step that could set off a broad disruption in higher education: It’s offering a new master’s degree in computer science, delivered through a series of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, for $6,600.

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But, he warns, if Georgia Tech doesn’t do this someone else might come along and do it first—grabbing the notoriety, the students, and the revenue. “There is a revolution. I want to lead it, not follow it,” he says.

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