{"id":10200,"date":"2010-10-11T16:06:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T20:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=10200"},"modified":"2010-10-11T16:09:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T20:09:57","slug":"what-will-universities-of-the-future-be-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/10\/11\/what-will-universities-of-the-future-be-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What will universities of the future be like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-11420119\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>What will universities of the future be like?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from bbc.co.uk by Hannah Richardson \t\t\t\tBBC News education reporter<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It&#8217;s the end of your shift, you dash for the train and switch on your mobile phone as you find yourself a seat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">You log into your degree course learning zone and discover  you&#8217;ve been set a tough assignment. You download some key text books  from the online university library and begin swotting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">While fellow commuters bury their heads in the Metro, you get some tips from course mates through an online forum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">By the time you reach your stop you have tapped out an essay plan on your smartphone.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Is this the university experience of the future? For an increasing number of students it&#8217;s happening now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And with the cost of university set to rise considerably,  many more are likely to study for their degrees in cheaper, more  flexible ways &#8211; perhaps through digitally-based distance learning  providers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8216;Mortgage-sized debts&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is the view of the vice-chancellors&#8217; body, Universities  UK, which warns that as public funding contracts, <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">the traditional  residential university experience could become the preserve of an elite.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will universities of the future be like? &#8212; from bbc.co.uk by Hannah Richardson BBC News education reporter It&#8217;s the end of your shift, you dash for the train and switch on your mobile phone as you find yourself a seat. You log into your degree course learning zone and discover you&#8217;ve been set a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,36,38,321],"tags":[290,586,588,728,572],"class_list":["post-10200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-future-of-higher-education","category-uk","category-united-states","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-uk","tag-united-states","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10200"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10206,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200\/revisions\/10206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}