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27 Oct 09

About The Commons | Academic Commons

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27 Sep 09

Next: An Internet Revolution in Higher Education - BusinessWeek

  • "The economics of traditional schooling are so out of whack that there is an opening for new players," says Fred Fransen, executive director of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education, which helps donors more effectively give money to universities. From that perch, Fransen sees the typical university business model as prone to attack.

Next: An Internet Revolution in Higher Education - BusinessWeek

  • For centuries the university model dominated because nothing else worked. No technology existed that might deliver an interactive, engaging educational experience without gathering students and teachers in the same physical space. In the past century, a powerful social bias set in: Only accredited universities were allowed to grant degrees, and most professional jobs required an accredited degree.
14 Sep 09

Stand There And Do Nothing - edublogs

  • Because what those tools 'allow' teachers to do has been possible for much longer than that, namely collaboration, shared responsibility for learning, access to resources beyond the one classroom textbook and teacher's brain.
  • come up with a gap-filling-only attitude.
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28 Aug 09

Microsoft is Dead

  • everyone can see the
    desktop is over. It now seems inevitable that applications will
    live on the web—not just email, but everything, right up to
    Photoshop.
  • The third cause of Microsoft's death was broadband Internet. Anyone
    who cares can have fast Internet access
    now. And the bigger the pipe to the server, the less you need the
    desktop.
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