Barbara Lindsey on 2009-08-11
THIS is what faculty and admins, especially, need to understand.
This link has been bookmarked by 69 people . It was first bookmarked on 10 Aug 2009, by Michelle A. Hoyle.
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tg2826who needs harvard, on line learning
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Denis GuerreroWeb 2.0 higher education
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WalterFUniversitätsausbildung im Web 2.0
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edtechtalkjm: I missed this the first time around
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Mathieu Plourde"The challenge is not to bring technology into the classroom, he points out. The millennials, with their Facebook and their cell phones, have done that. The challenge is to capture the potential of technology to lower costs and improve learning for all."
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"The Internet disrupts any industry whose core product can be reduced to ones and zeros," says Jose Ferreira, founder and CEO of education startup Knewton. Education, he says, "is the biggest virgin forest out there."
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erreira is among a loose-knit band of education 2.0 architects sharpening their saws for that forest.
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Daniel CraigNice overview of a few folks doing real exciting stuff in open education
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Rena Shifflet"If universities can't find the will to innovate and adapt to changes in the world around them," professor David Wiley of Brigham Young University has written, "universities will be irrelevant by 2020."
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"Colleges have become outrageously expensive, yet there remains a general refusal to acknowledge the implications of new technologies,"
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The architects of education 2.0 predict that traditional universities that cling to the string-quartet model will find themselves on the wrong side of history, alongside newspaper chains and record stores. "If universities can't find the will to innovate and adapt to changes in the world around them," professor David Wiley of Brigham Young University has written, "universities will be irrelevant by 2020."
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Ed WebbI'm pretty sure this is not about Edupunk. It's about entrepreneurship in the relatively limited sense of making money. Heh.
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"If universities can't find the will to innovate and adapt to changes in the world around them," professor David Wiley of Brigham Young University has written, "universities will be irrelevant by 2020."
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Valentina DodgeHow Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education
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Center for Teaching & LearningThis piece has got substance and some surprisingly insightful arguments about how higher ed is already starting to change from within. I especially liked how well it covers what often gets missed in the prognostication. The "edupunks" understand that soci
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Gabi WitthausFree online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks -- American higher education is changing.
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Ross GardlerFree online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks -- American higher education is changing.
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"The Internet disrupts any industry whose core product can be reduced to ones and zeros," says Jose Ferreira, founder and CEO of education startup Knewton.
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The edupunks are on the march. From VC-funded startups to the ivied walls of Harvard, new experiments and business models are springing up from entrepreneurs, professors, and students alike. Want a class that's structured like a role-playing game? An accredited bachelor's degree for a few thousand dollars? A free, peer-to-peer Wiki university? These all exist today, the overture to a complete educational remix.
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Mark BlairIs a college education really like a string quartet? Back in 1966, that was the assertion of economists William Bowen, later president of Princeton, and William Baumol. In a seminal study, Bowen and Baumol used the analogy to show why universities can't easily improve efficiency.
If you want to perform a proper string quartet, they noted, you can't cut out the cellist nor can you squeeze in more performances by playing the music faster. But that was then -- before MP3s and iPods proved just how freely music could flow. Before Google scanned and digitized 7 million books and Wikipedia users created the world's largest encyclopedia. Before YouTube Edu and iTunes U made video and audio lectures by the best professors in the country available for free, and before college students built Facebook into the world's largest social network, changing the way we all share information. Suddenly, it is possible to imagine a new model of education using online resources to serve more students, more cheaply than ever before.
"The Internet disrupts any industry whose core product can be reduced to ones and zeros," says Jose Ferreira, founder and CEO of education startup Knewton. Education, he says, "is the biggest virgin forest out there." Ferreira is among a loose-knit band of education 2.0 architects sharpening their saws for that forest. Their first foray was at MIT in 2001, when the school agreed to put coursework online for free. Today, you can find the full syllabi, lecture notes, class exercises, tests, and some video and audio for every course MIT offers, from physics to art history. This trove has been accessed by 56 million current and prospective students, alumni, professors, and armchair enthusiasts around the world. "The advent of the Web brings the ability to disseminate high-quality materials at almost no cost, leveling the playing field," says Cathy Casserly, a senior partner at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, who in her former role at the Hewlett Foundation provided seed funding for MIT -
Sarah ChaunceyFree online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks -- American higher education is being transformed by a cadre of Web-savvy edupunks.
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Carrie Ashendelohoh! Ideas: you can take classes from MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon for one degree, like they say, and you could by a consultant, with an independent profile and organized consultant teams.
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Susan SmithThe edupunks are on the march. From VC-funded startups to the ivied walls of Harvard, new experiments and business models are springing up from entrepreneurs, professors, and students alike. Want a class that's structured like a role-playing game? An accredited bachelor's degree for a few thousand dollars? A free, peer-to-peer Wiki university? These all exist today, the overture to a complete educational remix.
The architects of education 2.0 predict that traditional universities that cling to the string-quartet model will find themselves on the wrong side of history, alongside newspaper chains and record stores. "If universities can't find the will to innovate and adapt to changes in the world around them," professor David Wiley of Brigham Young University has written, "universities will be irrelevant by 2020." -
Kim FLINTOFFThe Internet disrupts any industry whose core product can be reduced to ones and zeros
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"The advent of the Web brings the ability to disseminate high-quality materials at almost no cost, leveling the playing field," says Cathy Casserly, a senior partner at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, who in her former role at the Hewlett Foundation provided seed funding for MIT's project. "We're changing the culture of how we think about knowledge and how it should be shared and who are the owners of knowledge."
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coined the term "edupunk" to describe the growing movement toward high-tech do-it-yourself education
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McKay Whisenhunt IIII wasn't expecting a lot from this article (in the business magazine, Fast Company) beyond the familiar drumbeat: the current model of American higher education is unsustainable . But this piece has got substance and some surprisingly insightful arguments about how higher ed is already starting to change from within. I especially liked how well it covers what often gets missed in the prognostication. The "edupunks" understand that social, collaborative tools are rapidly undermining our traditional concepts of intellectual property: ""We're changing the culture of how we think about knowledge and how it should be shared and who are the owners of knowledge." Interesting reading.-Lynda p.s. FastCompany originally titled the article, "Who Needs Harvard?" As the editor points out, all those who want the prestige of that diploma and the experience of that education. That's why he'd pay plenty if his child were admitted. So the editorial is interesting, too: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/138/who-needs-harvard.html (Letter from the Editor: Lessons of the Edupunks)
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L MilneI wasn't expecting a lot from this article (in the business magazine, Fast Company) beyond the familiar drumbeat: the current model of American higher education is unsustainable . But this piece has got substance and some surprisingly insightful arguments about how higher ed is already starting to change from within. I especially liked how well it covers what often gets missed in the prognostication. The "edupunks" understand that social, collaborative tools are rapidly undermining our traditional concepts of intellectual property: ""We're changing the culture of how we think about knowledge and how it should be shared and who are the owners of knowledge." Interesting reading.-Lynda p.s. FastCompany originally titled the article, "Who Needs Harvard?" As the editor points out, all those who want the prestige of that diploma and the experience of that education. That's why he'd pay plenty if his child were admitted. So the editorial is interesting, too: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/138/who-needs-harvard.html (Letter from the Editor: Lessons of the Edupunks)
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The edupunks are on the march. From VC-funded startups to the ivied walls of Harvard, new experiments and business models are springing up from entrepreneurs, professors, and students alike. Want a class that's structured like a role-playing game? An accredited bachelor's degree for a few thousand dollars? A free, peer-to-peer Wiki university? These all exist today, the overture to a complete educational remix.
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Ruth RadneyPeople are taking charge of their own education. Colleges and universities are trying to catch up.
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Their first foray was at MIT in 2001, when the school agreed to put coursework online for free. Today, you can find the full syllabi, lecture notes, class exercises, tests, and some video and audio for every course MIT offers, from physics to art history. This trove has been accessed by 56 million current and prospective students, alumni, professors, and armchair enthusiasts around the world.
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Groom, a chain-smoker with an ever-present five days' growth of beard, coined the term "edupunk" to describe the growing movement toward high-tech do-it-yourself education.
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shaz rasulFree online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks -- American higher education is changing.
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"The Internet disrupts any industry whose core product can be reduced to ones and zeros," says Jose Ferreira, founder and CEO of education startup Knewton. Education, he says, "is the biggest virgin forest out there." Ferreira is among a loose-knit band of education 2.0 architects sharpening their saws for that forest.
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MIT in 2001, when the school agreed to put coursework online for free.
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monika hardyFree online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks -- American higher education is being transformed by a cadre of Web-savvy edupunks.
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Michelle A. HoyleBut higher education remains, on the whole, a string quartet. MIT's courseware may be free, yet an MIT degree still costs upward of $189,000. College tuition has gone up more than any other good or service since 1990, and our nation's students and graduates hold a staggering $714 billion in outstanding student-loan debt. Once the world's most educated country, the United States today ranks 10th globally in the percentage of young people with postsecondary degrees. "Colleges have become outrageously expensive, yet there remains a general refusal to acknowledge the implications of new technologies," says Jim Groom, an "instructional technologist" at Virginia's University of Mary Washington and a prominent voice in the blogosphere for blowing up college as we know it. Groom, a chain-smoker with an ever-present five days' growth of beard, coined the term "edupunk" to describe the growing movement toward high-tech do-it-yourself education. "Edupunk," he tells me in the opening notes of his first email, "is about the utter irresponsibility and lethargy of educational institutions and the means by which they are financially cannibalizing their own mission."
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