{"id":71317,"date":"2020-07-08T14:55:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T18:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=71317"},"modified":"2020-07-08T20:12:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T00:12:07","slug":"are-universities-going-the-way-of-cds-and-cable-tv-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/07\/08\/are-universities-going-the-way-of-cds-and-cable-tv-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Are universities going the way of CDs and cable TV? [Smith]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are universities going the way of CDs and cable TV?<\/strong><\/a> — from theatlantic.com by Michael Smith; with thanks to Homa Tavangar & Will Richardson for this resource
\nLike the entertainment industry, colleges will need to embrace digital services in order to survive.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n

We all know how that worked out: From 1999 to 2009,\u00a0the music industry lost 50 percent of its sales<\/a>. From 2014 to 2019, roughly\u00a016 million American households canceled their cable subscriptions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Similar dynamics are at play in higher education today. Universities have long been remarkably stable institutions\u2014so stable that in 2001,\u00a0by one account<\/a>, they comprised an astonishing 70 of the 85 institutions in the West that have endured in recognizable form since the 1520s.<\/p>\n

That stability has again bred overconfidence, overpricing, and an overreliance on business models tailored to a physical world. Like those entertainment executives, many of us in higher education dismiss the threats that digital technologies pose to the way we work.<\/p>\n

Information technology<\/span>\u00a0transforms industries by making scarce resources plentiful, forcing customers to rethink the value of established products.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Paul<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Learning<\/p>\n

From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nI can’t help but hear Clayton Christenson’s voice in the following quote:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

An analogous situation prevails in higher education, where access to classroom seats, faculty experts, and university diplomas have been scarce for half a millennium. When massively open online courses first appeared, making free classes available to anyone with internet access, universities reflexively dismissed the threat. At the time, MOOCs were amateuristic, low-quality, and far removed from our degree-granting programs. But over the past 10 years, the technology has improved greatly. <\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are universities going the way of CDs and cable TV? — from theatlantic.com by Michael Smith; with thanks to Homa Tavangar & Will Richardson for this resource Like the entertainment industry, colleges will need to embrace digital services in order to survive. Excerpts: We all know how that worked out: From 1999 to 2009,\u00a0the music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[113,329,61,86,209,208,115,302,45,260,57,159,72,286,143,346,32,98,210,533,121,37,36,35,178,95,545,3,373,391,419,180,119,482,124,55,46,825,102,17,7,838,510,559,228,87,15,815,14,505,199,23,239,62,133,219,431,44,560,309,836,166,480,310,20,491,66,212,188,40,460,118,518,321,214,312,367,273,164,253,357,11,49,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-business-side-of-he","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-computer-science","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-digital-learning","category-disruption","category-distance-education","category-education-technology","category-elearning","category-emerging-technologies","category-experimentation","category-face-to-face","category-future","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-global-globalization","category-heutagogy","category-higher-education","category-homeschoolinghomeschoolers","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-intelligent-systems","category-intelligent-tutoring","category-internet","category-k-12-related","category-law-schools","category-learning","category-learning-agents","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-learning-hubs","category-learning-preferences","category-learning-spaces","category-lifelong-learning","category-microlearning","category-mobile-learning","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-multimedia","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-online-tutoring","category-organizational-change","category-pace-of-change","category-parents-guardians","category-platforms","category-remote-teaching-learning","category-social-learning-networks","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-strategy","category-streams-of-content","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-teaching-online","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-technology-general","category-training-corporate-universities","category-tvs","category-united-states","category-universities","category-user-experience-ux","category-vendors","category-virtual-field-trips","category-virtual-k-12-schools","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning","category-virtual-tutoring","category-vision-possibilities","category-web-based-collaboration","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71317","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=71317"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71325,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71317\/revisions\/71325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}