{"id":3525,"date":"2010-04-08T13:31:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2010-04-08T13:59:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:59:30","slug":"the-specialists-from-insidehighered-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/04\/08\/the-specialists-from-insidehighered-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Specialists &#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2010\/04\/05\/statistics\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Specialists<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com<br \/>\nApril 5, 2010<\/p>\n<p><em>Is the \u201cbundled\u201d model of  higher education outdated?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Some higher-ed futurists think so.  Choosing the academic program at a single university, they say, is a  relic of a time before online education made it possible for a student  in Oregon to take courses at a university in Florida if she wants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Since the online-education boom, the notion that students could cobble  together a curriculum that includes courses designed and delivered by a  variety of different institutions \u2014 including for-profit ones \u2014 has  gained traction in some circles. \u201cAs it has with industries from music  to news, the logic of digital technology will compel institutions to  specialize and collaborate, find economies of scale and avoid  duplications,\u201d journalist Anya Kamenetz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2010\/03\/26\/kamenetz\" target=\"_blank\">wrote last week in an op-ed<\/a>. \u201cExcellent [course]  content,\u201d noted the author and higher-ed innovator Peter Smith in an interview earlier this month, \u201c<strong>is increasingly  commodified and available<\/strong><em> (emphasis DSC).<\/em>\u201d Leaders in the liberal arts community recently nodded at the idea that even small colleges  could soon teach from open courseware \u201cmodules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From DSC:<\/strong><br \/>\nEven at the predominantly face-to-face college where I work, I know that several students have supplemented their educations and\/or fulfilled their educational degree programs with online-based courses from other schools. And many students attend <em>several <\/em>colleges or universities in their pursuit of a degree. <strong>So this idea of piece-mealing a degree via the combination of virtual and physical means is not far-fetched at all. <\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Also, did you notice the word <strong>commodity<\/strong>? Anyone who has followed my announcements through the years (as seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvin.edu\/~dsc8\/announcement_archives_2009.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvin.edu\/~dsc8\/announcement_archives_2008.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvin.edu\/~dsc8\/announcement_archives_2007.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvin.edu\/~dsc8\/walmartofeducation.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) will see that I have warned institutions to take steps to guard themselves from becoming a commodity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Signing off for now with the reminder&#8230;<strong><em>do not underestimate<\/em> the disruptive impact of technology. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Specialists &#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com April 5, 2010 Is the \u201cbundled\u201d model of higher education outdated? Some higher-ed futurists think so. Choosing the academic program at a single university, they say, is a relic of a time before online education made it possible for a student in Oregon to take courses at a university in [&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":[209,143,36,35,3,62],"tags":[641,585,34],"class_list":["post-3525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-changing-business-models","category-disruption","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-online-learning","tag-disruption","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525","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=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}