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OER ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES, AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
- Half of the world’s population is under twenty years old.
- Today, there are over thirty million people who are fully qualified to enter a university, but there is no place available. This number will grow to over 100 million during the next decade.
- To meet the staggering global demand for advanced education, a major university needs to be created every week.
- In most of the world, higher education is mired in a crisis of access, cost, and flexibility. The dominant forms of higher education in developed nations—campus based, high cost, limited use of technology—seem ill-suited to address global education needs of the billions of young people who will require it in the decades ahead.
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