{"id":17479,"date":"2011-04-05T15:40:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T19:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=17479"},"modified":"2011-04-05T15:41:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T19:41:26","slug":"excerpt-of-rethinking-colleges-from-the-ground-up-frey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/04\/05\/excerpt-of-rethinking-colleges-from-the-ground-up-frey\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpt of &#8220;Rethinking colleges from the ground up&#8221; [Frey]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Not that I&#8217;m on board with everything here&#8230;but the following excerpt from<\/span><strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfs.org\/content\/rethinking-colleges-ground\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rethinking colleges from the ground up<\/strong><\/a> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8212; from the World Future Society by Thomas Frey &#8212; is worth reflecting upon; and so are some of the questions listed at the bottom of this posting.\u00a0 <em> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>(NOTE: You may need to be a member to access this article in its entirety; emphasis DSC)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>So What\u2019s Changed<\/strong><br \/>\nThe obvious question to start with is simply, \u201cWhat\u2019s changed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why is it that an education system that has produced some of the  world\u2019s top scientists, engineers, and business executive is no longer  good enough to serve today\u2019s young people?<\/p>\n<p>The answers can be found in the following five areas:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>From information poor to information rich<\/li>\n<li>Fierce competition<\/li>\n<li>The cost to benefit ratio is changing<\/li>\n<li>New times require new intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Shift from individual intelligence to group intelligence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The following are but a few of the reasons why changing times demand different solutions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Colleges are being pushed in a number of directions but the big dividing  points will be oriented around in-person vs. online, and for the  in-person side of the equation, doing the things in-person that cannot  be done through online education.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Also see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfs.org\/content\/e-1-education-summit-education-and-new-normal\" target=\"_blank\">Education and the New Normal &#8212; The WorldFuture 2011 Education Summit<\/a> <\/strong>| July 7-8, 2011 | Sheraton        Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada<strong> <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What does the \u201cnew normal\u201d of shrunken classroom budgets, greater        reliance on information technology and the ongoing science and math skills        shortage mean for the future of education? Join fellow futurists this        summer in Vancouver to solve these and other questions during our two-day        WFS-exclusive Education Summit. This year\u2019s speakers include FUTURIST        magazine authors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfs.org\/content\/world-is-my-school\" target=\"_blank\">Maria H. Andersen,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfs.org\/node\/823\" target=\"_blank\">David Pearce Snyder,<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfs.org\/content\/wisdom-facing-forward-what-it-means-have-heightened-future-consciousness\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Lombardo<\/a> among many others.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Defining the \u201cNew Normal\u201d for Education<\/li>\n<li>Education as a Service<\/li>\n<li>Where\u2019s the \u201cLearn This\u201d Button?<\/li>\n<li>Learning in Depth: A Simple Innovation That Can Transform Schooling<\/li>\n<li>A New Education Vision: Reinventing School-to-Employment Systems for          Knowledge-Based Global Economies<\/li>\n<li>The New Tech Network<\/li>\n<li>Jump-Start Your Career as a Foresight Educator<\/li>\n<li>Reinventing Educational Activism by Creating Linkages: Technology,          Content-Driven Collaboration, and Financial Literacy<\/li>\n<li>A New Century: A New Instructional Paradigm<\/li>\n<li>Educating the Wise Cyborg of the Future<\/li>\n<li>Deconstructing the Education Monopoly in the United States<\/li>\n<li>Futurists and the Future of Education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WorldFuture 2011 Education Summit: $295 for WFS members\/$345 for        nonmembers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfs.org\/content\/e-1-education-summit-education-and-new-normal\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more and register here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: Not that I&#8217;m on board with everything here&#8230;but the following excerpt from Rethinking colleges from the ground up &#8212; from the World Future Society by Thomas Frey &#8212; is worth reflecting upon; and so are some of the questions listed at the bottom of this posting.\u00a0 (NOTE: You may need to be a [&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":[61,57,347,121,36,35,3,239,62,11],"tags":[52,600,290,739,630,586,585,566,251,601,573,572],"class_list":["post-17479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-education-reform","category-face-to-face","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","category-vision-possibilities","tag-budgetary","tag-business-side-of-he","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-education-reform","tag-face-to-face","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-higher-education","tag-new-business-models-in-he","tag-online-learning","tag-vision","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17479"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17485,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479\/revisions\/17485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}