{"id":10272,"date":"2010-10-12T18:06:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T22:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=10272"},"modified":"2010-10-13T19:05:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T23:05:37","slug":"my-fear-for-many-institutions-of-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/10\/12\/my-fear-for-many-institutions-of-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"My fear for many institutions of higher education…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world changed, colleges missed it<\/a> <\/strong>— from edreformer.com by Tom Vander Ark<\/p>\n

A bunch of colleges are going out of business, only they don\u2019t know it.<\/strong> They pretend that trimming costs and jacking tuition is a solution.\u00a0 They haven\u2019t come to terms with a world where anyone can learn anything almost anywhere for free or cheap. Art Levine, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, sees three major change forces: new competition, a convergence of knowledge producers, and changing demographics.
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\nTo Art\u2019s list of three big change forces, add shrinking government support, the press for more accountability, and emerging technology<\/strong>…the next few decades will be marked by a lumpy move to competency-based learning<\/strong>…instant information<\/strong> and the ability to learn anything anywhere.<\/strong>
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\nThe shift to personal digital learning is on. \u00a0Some colleges get that.\u00a0 Others will seek bailouts until they go out of business.\u00a0 Working adults are getting smart on their own terms.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From DSC:<\/span><\/strong>
\nTime will tell if Tom’s assertions are too harsh here, but personally, I think he’s right. <\/span><\/p>\n

I have it that:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n