{"id":35519,"date":"2012-12-17T11:14:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=35519"},"modified":"2012-12-17T12:53:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:53:27","slug":"the-perfect-storm-in-higher-ed-has-been-amassed-change-is-in-the-air-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/12\/17\/the-perfect-storm-in-higher-ed-has-been-amassed-change-is-in-the-air-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Storm in Higher Ed has been amassed; change is in the air. [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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— from The Economics of Higher Educatio<\/em>n<\/a>, Dec 2012 (pg 2)<\/p>\n

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…and you can see that the Perfect Storm in Higher Ed has been amassed.\u00a0 Massive change is in the air. People will find a way to achieve their goals\/objectives — one way or another. <\/strong>College is still a good call — but what “college” and “university life” will look like in 5 years will likely be very different from what they look like today.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no returning to the “good ol’ days” <\/strong>— things are not going back to the way they were 5-10 years ago.\u00a0 It’s time for massive — but controlled\/intentional — experimentation within higher ed, to find out how best to use the Internet in order to promote learning (and, hopefully, to still make a living!).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Some examples that illustrate that change is in the air…and that the conversation continues to move outside traditional institutions of higher education <\/span><\/strong>(I mention these not to dog higher ed, but to get us to innovate, to reinvent ourselves, and to stay relevant!)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Big idea 2013: College becomes optional<\/strong> <\/a>— from LinkedIn.com by Ben Smith<\/p>\n

Jailbreaking the degree: The end of the 4 year diploma<\/strong> <\/a>— from onlineuniversities.com by Justin Marquis<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s wrong with getting a college degree? According to the grassroots movement, “Jailbreaking the Degree,” being pushed by radical education startup Degreed.com<\/a>, quite a bit. The organization has identified several fundamental flaws with the long standing college degree process. It aims to overcome them and dramatically change the nature of learning and credentialing in the process. In order to justify their initiative they present some dramatic numbers on their website…<\/p>\n

Degreed wants to jailbreak the college degree<\/strong><\/a> — from techcrunch.com by Rip Empson<\/p>\n

Saying no to college<\/strong> <\/a>— NYT.com by Alex Williams<\/p>\n

Do a Google search on uncollege.org<\/strong> <\/a>and see what you get<\/p>\n

The rise of college alternatives<\/a><\/strong>— from huffingtonpost.com by Dan Schawbel<\/p>\n

educreations.com<\/strong><\/a>: Teach what you know. Learn what you don’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Combine the trends listed in this graphic: . — from The Economics of Higher Education, Dec 2012 (pg 2)   …with the next several graphics… .   .   .     …and you can see that the Perfect Storm in Higher Ed has been amassed.\u00a0 Massive change is in the air. People will find […]<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,209,57,159,72,143,306,347,533,36,35,74,285,239,310,20,66,212,321],"tags":[52,600,614,653,606,641,349,808,586,585,566,607,27,251,637,779,722,579,678,728],"class_list":["post-35519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-changing-business-models","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-disruption","category-economics","category-education-reform","category-experimentation","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-leadership","category-legislation-legislatures","category-new-business-models","category-staying-relevant","category-strategy","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-united-states","tag-budgetary","tag-business-side-of-he","tag-change","tag-dangers-of-the-status-quo","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-disruption","tag-economicsbusiness","tag-experimentation","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-higher-education","tag-leadership","tag-legislation","tag-new-business-models-in-he","tag-perfect-storm","tag-reinvent","tag-staying-relevant","tag-strategy","tag-surviving","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35519","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=35519"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35532,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35519\/revisions\/35532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}