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Education is also moving to information environments. At a time when the cost of traditional higher education is rising,⁸ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and online learning providers such as Coursera, Udemy, and Khan Academy offer a lower-cost alternative. Major universities such as Stanford, Harvard, and MIT already offer such courses. But it’s not just higher education that is undergoing this transformation. My grade-school daughters cheerfully talk about taking assessment tests in their Chromebooks at school. And much corporate training happens in learning management systems that allow employees to learn at their own pace and their managers to track their progress.