{"id":6521,"date":"2010-06-24T11:20:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T15:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=6521"},"modified":"2010-06-24T11:28:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T15:28:03","slug":"universities-at-a-crossroads-insidehighered-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/06\/24\/universities-at-a-crossroads-insidehighered-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities at a Crossroads — InsideHigherEd.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Universities at a Crossroads<\/a> <\/strong>— InsideHigherEd.com<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2013 Given the influence of rapid globalization and the emergence of knowledge-based societies, the universities of the future will bear virtually no resemblance to those of today. Or so argued a group of American and Asian education leaders who gathered here Monday to speculate on how the sector may evolve to meet future challenges.<\/p>\n

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The academics on the panel, presented by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars<\/a>, seemed to agree that the universities of the future will have to become more entrepreneurial to meet the needs of young people with new learning styles and older people who may need continuing education throughout their life. Given this, most of the discussion among the panelists focused on how the current model of higher education should adapt.<\/p>\n

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William Pepicello, president of the University of Phoenix, the largest for-profit education provider in the United States, argued that \u201cthe next generation of students is expecting that higher education is going to be as accessible as the rest of the world,\u201d which, he noted, is increasingly available at students’ fingertips via commercial devices that access the Internet. He noted that the universities of tomorrow should be able to adapt to their students and not vice versa, much as Google and Yahoo can customize Web searching to personal preferences.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs there any reason why higher education platforms shouldn\u2019t be able to adapt to the people, to the students who come there for help?\u201d Pepicello asked. \u201cAnd in a variety of ways, not just in consumer ways but in learning style, for instance, and in preferences of learning materials?\u201d<\/p>\n

James J. Duderstadt, president emeritus of the University of Michigan and a member of former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings\u2019 Commission on the Future of Higher Education<\/a>, told educators in the audience that their universities would have \u201cto consider entirely new paradigms\u201d to survive and stay relevant in the future. He was particularly complimentary of the adaptability of the for-profit college sector.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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