Decoding Higher Ed - Nana Kofi Nti and Mashama Thompson

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Nana Kofi Nti and Mashama Thompson discuss the challenges facing higher education in the attention economy.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Nana Kofi Nti and Mashama Thompson, co-founders of 510 Media, discuss the challenges facing colleges and universities in the attention economy. They note that institutions of higher education must work to distinguish themselves from the ubiquity of crowdsourced online learning. Kofi Nti and Thompson challenge us to reflect critically on whether higher education is truly developing quality minds. They suggest that education is not a finite destination, but rat...

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Hosts: Denise Nelson Nash, Herminio L. Perez

Guests: Nana Kofi Nti, Mashama Thompson

Topics covered

• higher education
• attention economy
• online learning
• quality education
• critical reflection

Keywords

• higher education
• attention economy
• 510 Media
• online learning
• quality minds

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Organizations: 510 Media

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