{"id":26637,"date":"2012-01-30T14:15:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=26637"},"modified":"2012-01-30T14:20:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:20:33","slug":"has-the-higher-ed-revolution-begun-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/01\/30\/has-the-higher-ed-revolution-begun-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the higher-ed revolution begun? [Allen]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindingthecampus.com\/originals\/2012\/01\/has_the_higher-ed_revolution_begun.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Has the higher-ed revolution begun?<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from mindingthecampus.com by Charlotte Allen<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts (<span style=\"color: #800000;\">emphasis DSC<\/span>):<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It&#8217;s happening, almost overnight: what could be the collapse of the near-monopoly that traditional brick-and-mortar colleges and universities currently enjoy as respected credentialing institutions whose degrees and grades mean something to employers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The most dramatic development, just a few days ago, was the decision of robotics-expert Sebastian Thrun to resign from his position as a tenured professor of computer science at Stanford in order to start an online university he calls Udacity that he hopes will reach hundreds of thousands of students who either can&#8217;t afford Stanford&#8217;s $40,000-a-year tuition or who can&#8217;t travel thousands of miles to one of the bricks-and-mortar classes he used to teach.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Besides threatening to up-end universities&#8217; traditional control of educational credentials, Thrun may also drastically change the shape of for-profit education. Udacity is being operated by Know Labs, a Thrun-founded for-profit enterprise funded by the venture-capital firm Charles River Ventures. Know Labs&#8217; ultimate aim, according to Thrun, is to offer high-quality online courses that will be either free or cheap (the company is in the process of developing a business model). Thrun has estimated, for example, that if he and Norvik had charged only $1 apiece to all 160,000 enrollees in their artificial-intelligence course last fall, they could have easily recouped their costs. By contrast, the majority of existing for-profit colleges charge relatively high tuition that has made those institutions highly dependent upon their students&#8217; federal grants and loans. It&#8217;s unlikely that anyone would have to borrow in order to take an Udacity course.<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2012\/01\/23\/145645472\/stanford-takes-online-schooling-to-the-next-academic-level?sc=17&amp;f=1019\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford takes online schooling to the next academic level<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from NPR.org by Steve Henn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has the higher-ed revolution begun? &#8212; from mindingthecampus.com by Charlotte Allen Excerpts (emphasis DSC): It&#8217;s happening, almost overnight: what could be the collapse of the near-monopoly that traditional brick-and-mortar colleges and universities currently enjoy as respected credentialing institutions whose degrees and grades mean something to employers. The most dramatic development, just a few days ago, [&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":[61,209,57,159,72,36,35,62,436,437,310],"tags":[600,290,653,606,586,585,251,601,637,779,780,722,572],"class_list":["post-26637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-changing-business-models","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-online-learning","category-reinvent","category-robotics","category-staying-relevant","tag-business-side-of-he","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-dangers-of-the-status-quo","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-new-business-models-in-he","tag-online-learning","tag-perfect-storm","tag-reinvent","tag-robotics","tag-staying-relevant","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26637","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=26637"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26643,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26637\/revisions\/26643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}