{"id":69894,"date":"2020-03-06T12:24:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T17:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69894"},"modified":"2020-03-06T12:35:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T17:35:13","slug":"how-online-education-went-from-teaching-reform-to-economic-necessity-for-colleges-ubell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/03\/06\/how-online-education-went-from-teaching-reform-to-economic-necessity-for-colleges-ubell\/","title":{"rendered":"How online education went from teaching reform to economic necessity for colleges [Ubell]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2020-03-05-how-online-education-went-from-teaching-reform-to-economic-necessity-for-colleges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>How online education went from teaching reform to economic necessity for colleges<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edsurge.com by Robert Ubell<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">When online was first introduced as a pedagogical advance, faculty members often\u00a0rose up against it\u2014or more often, just ignored it, the most devastating form of resistance.<\/span> <\/strong>If it weren&#8217;t for economic necessity, online might not have grown to the force it has today\u2014these days a third of the nation&#8217;s higher ed students\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/digital-learning\/article\/2018\/11\/07\/new-data-online-enrollments-grow-and-share-overall-enrollment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">take courses online<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMillions of working adults must turn to digital degrees to improve their employability in a post-industrial economy that demands higher-level skills than on the assembly line. Corporations are being pressed to find agile, high-tech workers for their digital processes and products. Powerful new digital-recruitment techniques now make massive global markets open to any college with deep enough pockets.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The <em>market<\/em> will decide how colleges and universities will change &#8212; and which ones will survive. <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Presidents, provosts, members of administration, board members, and faculty members do not control this anymore (if they ever did).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How online education went from teaching reform to economic necessity for colleges &#8212; from edsurge.com by Robert Ubell Excerpt (emphasis DSC): When online was first introduced as a pedagogical advance, faculty members often\u00a0rose up against it\u2014or more often, just ignored it, the most devastating form of resistance. 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