Friday, October 2, 2009

Higher Education News

How Higher Ed is beginning to be disrupted- from Techdirt-

Interesting article and fun discussion - An online university falls short of the ideal-

I think this calls for some thought on the value of physical space for a LEARNING ENVIRONMENT...

3 comments:

Larry Gott said...

Too many words, and not enough pictures. Too serious, not enough comedy. In other words, pretty much like my blogposts. And too URLy.
?:^)

Today's new verification word is muspi

Larry

Anthony said...

I agree, brother, so here goes with the weedwhacker effect- time to slice and dice- errr- that would be the ginsu knife effect....

Larry Gott said...

Regarding the future of universities, see ATMs and online banking: 99.9 % of the cash I need and bank transactions I do take place outside of a bank.

I can see that there might be big trouble coming for university campuses as online education comes to the fore. Someday 90% of the education one gets might be outside a college (or seminary) campus.

But, this DOES fall short of the ideal, when we consider the benefits of social community and idea and issue interchange.

Just a little scary. (See the future of newspapers)

Larry

P.S. "value added" to Foster blog: 2 cents.

Word verification word-of-the-day: lumsmsom: insomnia medicine that illuminates the user.

Second word verification word-of-the-day: mentis: insect in the top 1% of its class (as in Praying Mentis)