{"id":37548,"date":"2013-02-12T20:43:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T01:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=37548"},"modified":"2013-02-12T20:48:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T01:48:49","slug":"your-massively-open-offline-college-is-broken-shirky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/02\/12\/your-massively-open-offline-college-is-broken-shirky\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Massively Open Offline College Is Broken [Shirky]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2013\/02\/how-to-save-college\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Your Massively Open Offline College Is Broken<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; by Clay Shirky<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt (<span style=\"color: #800000;\">emphasis DSC<\/span>):<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is the background to the entire conversation around higher education:<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> Things that can\u2019t last don\u2019t.<\/strong> This is why MOOCs matter. Not because distance learning is some big new thing or because online lectures are a solution to all our problems, but because they\u2019ve come along at a time when students and parents are willing to ask themselves, &#8220;Isn\u2019t there some other way to do this?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">MOOCs are a lightning strike on a rotten tree. Most stories have focused on the lightning, on MOOCs as the flashy new thing. I want to talk about the tree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Imagine picking a thousand students at random from among our institutions of higher education. Now imagine unpicking everyone at one of <i>US News<\/i>&#8216; Top 100 liberal arts colleges or universities. You\u2019d expel anyone from the Ivy League, Stanford, MIT. Anyone from from Emory or Rice. Anyone from Vanderbilt, Clemson, Drexel. Anyone from the famously good state schools\u2014UMass, Virginia, the California universities. After ejecting those students from your group, how many of the original thousand would be left?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">About 900.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" alt=\"graphs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-07-at-10.23.51-AM.jpg\" width=\"553\" height=\"486\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Houston, we have a problem.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Massively Open Offline College Is Broken &#8212; by Clay Shirky Excerpt (emphasis DSC): This is the background to the entire conversation around higher education: Things that can\u2019t last don\u2019t. This is why MOOCs matter. 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