Comments on: What shall we do with higher education? http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2008/12/10/what-shall-we-do-with-higher-education/ learning, networks, knowledge, technology, community Wed, 8 Sep 2010 18:34:24 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Doug Flather http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2008/12/10/what-shall-we-do-with-higher-education/comment-page-1/#comment-3969 Doug Flather Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:39:07 +0000 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/?p=3666#comment-3969 Virginia makes an important comment, but frankly as one who has worked in both traditional, state-run academia and within a for-profit distance learning graduate school environment, and who now has children as consumers of undergraduate education, I'm excited to see how post secondary education will evolve. It's about time. - Doug Flather Virginia makes an important comment, but frankly as one who has worked in both traditional, state-run academia and within a for-profit distance learning graduate school environment, and who now has children as consumers of undergraduate education, I’m excited to see how post secondary education will evolve. It’s about time.
- Doug Flather

]]> By: Newman http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2008/12/10/what-shall-we-do-with-higher-education/comment-page-1/#comment-3006 Newman Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:25:50 +0000 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/?p=3666#comment-3006 @Virginia - I think you are right. It is possible that the shakeout will produce some negative effects. The blind implementation of standardized instructional design... Or at least the narrowly focused attention on the bottom line of profit ... would lead to seriously negative effects in learning and understanding. Optimistically, I like to think that learning and understanding are making a comeback. The affordances of the globalized world allow for incredible learning activities and experiences -- pure fantasy a few decades ago. Is there a paradigm shift in teaching and learning happening now? (I think, yes.) Will the university be left behind? (maybe, but definitely changed) Will instructional designers pre-and post test be our undoing?(oh dear...) -- -- A crisis forces a decision, but will it be the right one? Will we cling to the past or leap to the future? Buckminster Fuller: “American education has evolved in such a way it will be the undoing of the society.” - from http://web.tampabay.rr.com/fkittle/Primer.pdf @Virginia – I think you are right. It is possible that the shakeout will produce some negative effects. The blind implementation of standardized instructional design… Or at least the narrowly focused attention on the bottom line of profit … would lead to seriously negative effects in learning and understanding.

Optimistically, I like to think that learning and understanding are making a comeback. The affordances of the globalized world allow for incredible learning activities and experiences — pure fantasy a few decades ago.

Is there a paradigm shift in teaching and learning happening now? (I think, yes.) Will the university be left behind? (maybe, but definitely changed) Will instructional designers pre-and post test be our undoing?(oh dear…) — – A crisis forces a decision, but will it be the right one? Will we cling to the past or leap to the future?

Buckminster Fuller: “American education has evolved in such a way it will be the undoing of the
society.” – from http://web.tampabay.rr.com/fkittle/Primer.pdf

]]> By: Virginia Yonkers http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2008/12/10/what-shall-we-do-with-higher-education/comment-page-1/#comment-2967 Virginia Yonkers Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:47:34 +0000 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/?p=3666#comment-2967 My concern is that this shake out will end up being a reversion to the industrial production model of education with standardized Instructional Design and content designed for hundreds and thousands of students, assessed using standardized pre and post tests to prove there was learning. Is this a step forward or a step back to preserve the "institution"? My concern is that this shake out will end up being a reversion to the industrial production model of education with standardized Instructional Design and content designed for hundreds and thousands of students, assessed using standardized pre and post tests to prove there was learning. Is this a step forward or a step back to preserve the “institution”?

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