{"id":15038,"date":"2011-02-11T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=15038"},"modified":"2011-02-11T10:46:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T15:46:53","slug":"will-higher-education-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/02\/11\/will-higher-education-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Will higher education split?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/cgi-bin\/page.cgi?post=54824\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Will higher education split? <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from Stephen Downes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sir John Daniel and Stamenka Uvali-Trumbi asks provocative question:  &#8220;<strong>Will higher education split over the next decade or two into a public  sector focussed on research and a for-profit sector doing most of the  teaching?<\/strong>&#8221; The evidence? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/fileadmin\/MULTIMEDIA\/HQ\/ED\/ED\/pdf\/WCHE_2009\/FINAL%20COMMUNIQUE%20WCHE%202009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">communique<\/a> from UNESCO predicting &#8220;massification&#8221; of higher education, <a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/9113.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wildavsky&#8217;s book<\/a> on global universities, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityworldnews.com\/article.php?story=20090521174410568\">Salmi&#8217;s commentary<\/a> on world class universities, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contactnorth.ca\/?sv=&amp;category=In%20the%20News&amp;title=In%20the%20News&amp;newsitem_id=15\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Bates&#8217;s article<\/a> on the future of higher education, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oup.com\/us\/catalog\/general\/subject\/Economics\/Policy\/?view=usa&amp;ci=9780199744503\" target=\"_blank\">Archibald and Feldman&#8217;s book<\/a> on the costs of higher education. He could have added many other  sources (and especially digital sources), such as this week&#8217;s call for a  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kxan.com\/dpp\/news\/Perry-proposes-10000-bachelor-degree\" target=\"_blank\">$10,000 degree<\/a> from Texas governor Rick Perry, or <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/lifestyle\/article\/is-higher-education-doomed-part-i\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Kiser<\/a> wondering whether state-run higher education is doomed.<\/p>\n<p>Also see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Tony Bates&#8217;<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.contactnorth.ca\/en\/data\/files\/download\/Jan2011\/2011%20Outlook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2011 Outlook for Online Learning and Distance Education (PDF)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will higher education split? &#8212; from Stephen Downes Excerpt: Sir John Daniel and Stamenka Uvali-Trumbi asks provocative question: &#8220;Will higher education split over the next decade or two into a public sector focussed on research and a for-profit sector doing most of the teaching?&#8221; The evidence? The communique from UNESCO predicting &#8220;massification&#8221; of higher education, [&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":[86,209,57,143,36,35,285,50],"tags":[52,614,290,641,586,585,566,27,251,594,572],"class_list":["post-15038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-disruption","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-legislation-legislatures","category-teaching-learning","tag-budgetary","tag-change","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-disruption","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-higher-education","tag-legislation","tag-new-business-models-in-he","tag-teaching-learning","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15038","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=15038"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15043,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15038\/revisions\/15043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}