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Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
Chelsea Green Pub Co
April 2010
On Sale: April 19, 2010
208 pages
ISBN: 1603582347
EAN: 9781603582346
Kindle: B005GLMAQA
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Non-Fiction
The price of college tuition has increased more than any
other major good or service for the last twenty years. Nine
out of ten American high school seniors aspire to go to
college, yet the United States has fallen from world leader
to only the tenth most educated nation. Almost half of
college students don't graduate; those who do have
unprecedented levels of federal and private student loan
debt, which constitutes a credit bubble similar to the
mortgage crisis. The system particularly fails the first-generation, the
low-income, and students of color who predominate in coming
generations. What we need to know is changing more quickly
than ever, and a rising tide of information threatens to
swamp knowledge and wisdom. America cannot regain its
economic and cultural leadership with an increasingly
ignorant population. Our choice is clear: Radically change
the way higher education is delivered, or resign ourselves
to never having enough of it. The roots of the words "university" and "college" both mean
community. In the age of constant connectedness and social
media, it's time for the monolithic, millennium-old,
ivy-covered walls to undergo a phase change into something
much lighter, more permeable, and fluid. The future lies in personal learning networks and paths,
learning that blends experiential and digital approaches,
and free and open-source educational models. Increasingly,
you will decide what, when, where, and with whom you want to
learn, and you will learn by doing. The university is the
cathedral of modernity and rationality, and with our whole
civilization in crisis, we are poised on the brink of
Reformation.
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