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• 29 Sep 09
  

  Kim Cofino

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• 05 Sep 09
  

  Willy Kjellstrom

  Great quotes that could be used in any education post.

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• 28 Aug 09
  

  Tania Sheko

  Should higher education be scarce or abundant?

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• 21 Aug 09
  

  Doug Peterson

  Actually, there isn't one, there are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make.

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  Peggy George

  here are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make. MIT and Stanford are starting to make classes available for free online. The marginal cost of this is pretty close to zero, so it's easy for them to share. Abundant education is easy to access and offers motivated individuals a chance to learn.
  Scarcity comes from things like accreditation, admissions policies or small classrooms.
  Should this be free or expensive?
  Should this be about school or about learning?
  If I were going to wager, I'd say that the free, abundant learning combination is the one that's going to change the world.

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• 20 Aug 09
  

  RJ Stangherlin

  Actually, there isn't one, there are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make. Should this be scarce or abundant? MIT and Stanford are starting to make classes available for free online. The marginal cost...

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• 19 Aug 09
  

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  Jeff Utecht

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  Actually, there isn't one, there are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make.

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• 18 Aug 09
  

  Allan Briggs

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  Clifford Baker

  Actually, there isn't one, there are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make.

  • Should this be about school or about learning?

    School was the big thing for a long time. School is tests and credits and notetaking and meeting standards. Learning, on the other hand, is 'getting it'. It's the conceptual breakthrough that permits the student to understand it then move on to something else. Learning doesn't care about workbooks or long checklists.

    For a while, smart people thought that school was organized to encourage learning. For a long time, though, people in the know have realized that they are fundamentally different activities.

  • Should this be about school or about learning?

    School was the big thing for a long time. School is tests and credits and notetaking and meeting standards. Learning, on the other hand, is 'getting it'. It's the conceptual breakthrough that permits the student to understand it then move on to something else. Learning doesn't care about workbooks or long checklists.

    For a while, smart people thought that school was organized to encourage learning. For a long time, though, people in the know have realized that they are fundamentally different activities.

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  • • Should this be about school or about learning?

      School was the big thing for a long time. School is tests and credits and notetaking and meeting standards. Learning, on the other hand, is 'getting it'. It's the conceptual breakthrough that permits the student to understand it then move on to something else. Learning doesn't care about workbooks or long checklists.

      For a while, smart people thought that school was organized to encourage learning. For a long time, though, people in the know have realized that they are fundamentally different activities.

    • Should this be scarce or abundant?
    • Should this be scarce or abundant?
    • Should this be scarce or abundant?
    • Should this be scarce or abundant?
    • Actually, there isn't one, there are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make.
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  Alec Couros

  Good post by Seth Godin detailing three big choices for the future of HigherEducation including:
  - Should this be scarce or abundant?
  - Should this be free or expensive?
  - Should this be about school or about learning?

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• 17 Aug 09
  

  Actually, there isn't one, there are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make.

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  karen Janowski
  • If you think the fallout in the newspaper business was dramatic, wait until you see what happens to education.
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  Jeremy Rudy

  Actually, there isn't one, there are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make. Should this be scarce or abundant? MIT and Stanford are starting to make classes available for free online. The marginal cost...

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  Darcy Goshorn

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  • School was the big thing for a long time. School is tests and credits and notetaking and meeting standards. Learning, on the other hand, is 'getting it'. It's the conceptual breakthrough that permits the student to understand it then move on to something else. Learning doesn't care about workbooks or long checklists.

    For a while, smart people thought that school was organized to encourage learning. For a long time, though, people in the know have realized that they are fundamentally different activities.

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  Fred Delventhal

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  • Learning, on the other hand, is 'getting it'. It's the conceptual breakthrough that permits the student to understand it then move on to something else. Learning doesn't care about workbooks or long checklists.
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  Martin Lindner

  If you think the fallout in the newspaper business was dramatic, wait until you see what happens to education.
  
  all 8 combinations of these elements will be tried: free abundant learning >> expensive scarce schooling >> free scarce learning, free scarce

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  paul reid

  MIT and Stanford are starting to make classes available for free online. The marginal cost of this is pretty close to zero, so it's easy for them to share. Abundant education is easy to access and offers motivated individuals a chance to learn.
  
  Scarcity comes from things like accreditation, admissions policies or small classrooms.

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  M McBride

  School was the big thing for a long time. School is tests and credits and notetaking and meeting standards. Learning, on the other hand, is 'getting it'. It's the conceptual breakthrough that permits the student to understand it then move on to something else. Learning doesn't care about workbooks or long checklists.

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  Peter Gaines

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  Will Richardson

  Imagine a school that's built around free, abundant learning. And compare it to one that's focused on scarce, expensive schooling. Or dream up your own combination. My recent MBA program, for example, was scarce (only 9 people got to do it) and it was free and focused on learning.
  
  Just because something is free doesn't meant there isn't money to be made. Someone could charge, for example, for custom curricula, or focused tutoring, or for a certified (scarce) degree. When a million people are taking your course, you only need 1% to pay you to be happy indeed.
  
  Eight combinations of the three choices are available and my guess is that all eight will be tried. If I were going to wager, I'd say that the free, abundant learning combination is the one that's going to change the world.

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  Jocelyn Nadeau

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  Dione Wang

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  • Abundant education is easy to access and offers motivated individuals a
    chance to learn.

    
    

    Scarcity comes from things like accreditation, admissions policies or small
    classrooms.

  • The newly easy access to the education marketplace (you used to need a big
    campus and a spot in the guidance office) means that both the free and expensive
    options are going to be experimented with, because the number of people in the
    education business is going to explode (then implode).

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  • • School is tests and credits and notetaking and meeting standards. Learning,
      on the other hand, is 'getting it'. It's the conceptual breakthrough that
      permits the student to understand it then move on to something else. Learning
      doesn't care about workbooks or long checklists.

      
      

      For a while, smart people thought that school was organized to encourage
      learning. For a long time, though, people in the know have realized that they
      are fundamentally different activities.

    • the free, abundant learning combination is the one that's going to change the
      world

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