{"id":3664,"date":"2010-04-13T20:04:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T00:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2010-04-13T20:12:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T00:12:56","slug":"moving-college-into-the-21st-century-politico-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/04\/13\/moving-college-into-the-21st-century-politico-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving college into the 21st century &#8212; politico.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0909\/27762.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Moving college into the 21st century<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; politico.com (see quotes below)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Today, we\u2019ve reached another turning point. The global economy is changing, and the United States needs to educate its way to a better economy for the 21st century. President Barack Obama has set a goal that by 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. To reach that goal, we need to bring 5 million more Americans into higher education and ensure that future generations will have the same opportunity for a college education and success in the work force.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The president has proposed a comprehensive agenda to keep a college  education within reach, especially for America\u2019s poorest families, and  to dramatically increase college graduation rates in the next decade.  President Obama\u2019s agenda includes the largest increase in federal  financial aid since the GI Bill \u2014 a 30 percent increase in fiscal 2010  alone. In addition, the president\u2019s American Graduation Initiative would  provide $12 billion more during the next 10 years to improve community  colleges and help students gain access to higher education and ensure  that they earn their degrees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Beyond these investments in our future, one part of the AGI has the  potential to have a lasting impact on the future of higher education: <strong> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">The president is proposing to invest $500 million over the next 10 years  to create world-class online college and high school courses that will  be available to all 24\/7\/365. <\/span><\/strong><strong>Colleges, universities, publishers, other  institutions and related consortia will be invited to compete to create  state-of-the-art online courses that combine high-quality subject matter  expertise with the latest advances in cognitive and computer sciences.  Such courses will enable students to move through the material at their  own pace. When students do not understand a particular lesson or  concept, carefully designed assessments will identify the gap in their  learning. They\u2019ll relearn the material and have another chance to  demonstrate mastery <\/strong><em>(emphasis  DSC).<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Along these same lines, see: <\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvin.edu\/~dsc8\/walmartofeducation.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Forthcoming Walmart of Education.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>If done well, these courses are going to be highly-engaging, while using state-of-the-art technologies and instructional methods. Can <em>one <\/em>faculty member compete with this team-based approach? No way!<\/strong> (<em>And I mean no disrespect at all here &#8212; it&#8217;s just <\/em>too much<em> for one person to keep up with, be interested in, and have the time and resources to do all of this.)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving college into the 21st century &#8212; politico.com (see quotes below) Today, we\u2019ve reached another turning point. The global economy is changing, and the United States needs to educate its way to a better economy for the 21st century. President Barack Obama has set a goal that by 2020, America will once again have the [&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":[36,35,3,180,285,62,133,76,201],"tags":[587,586,27,77,673],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-innovation","category-legislation-legislatures","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-open-courseware-and-systems","category-policy","tag-future","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-legislation","tag-ocw","tag-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","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=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3676,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}