It’s becoming a familiar story, university experiences are increasingly being characterized by: impractical learning, out-of-touch faculty, high tuition, time-wasting requirements and diminishing probabilities of employment. As with any disruptive innovation, there will be winners and losers. Although speculative, I would consider the following to be among the most interesting of the implications we are likely to see. The challenge of administrators in the U.S., and around the world will be to move fast, take big gambles, and preserve the very best of the heritages of the institutions that they lead. Read more at:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/billfischer/2012/01/19/disruption-coming-soon-to-a-university-near-you/
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"university experiences are increasingly being characterized by: impractical learning, out-of-touch faculty, high tuition, time-wasting requirements and diminishing probabilities of employment"
Shouldn't that be "characterized AS"? The Forbes piece makes a few assumptions about the quality of education. They're actually discussing the *perception* of the quality of education, not the evidence of its decline.
Posted by: Carol Perryman | January 27, 2012 at 05:30 AM