{"id":38000,"date":"2013-03-04T18:06:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T23:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=38000"},"modified":"2013-03-04T18:06:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T23:06:48","slug":"presidents-of-harvard-mit-write-joint-op-ed-the-newest-revolution-in-higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/03\/04\/presidents-of-harvard-mit-write-joint-op-ed-the-newest-revolution-in-higher-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidents of Harvard &#038; MIT write joint op-ed &#8211;> &#8220;The newest revolution in higher ed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/2013\/03\/03\/the-future-online-learning-and-residential-education\/MRaKdvKFTtxC7nCA3yQhxL\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The newest revolution in higher ed<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from The Boston Globe by Drew Faust (president of Harvard Univeristy) and L. Rafael Reif (president of MIT)<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In 1837, the Massachusetts Board of Education devoted part of its first annual report to praising a recent classroom innovation called the blackboard. This \u201cinvaluable and indispensible\u201d innovation enabled the \u201crapid and vivid communication of knowledge.\u201d It created opportunities for teachers to engage learners in ways that had been unimaginable just a generation earlier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The same and more will be said of online learning tools. We are at the beginning of a technology-led revolution in pedagogy: Our innovation is not the blackboard, but instead an evolving suite of tools that allows interactive learning online. While one outcome of this revolution has rightly caught the world\u2019s attention \u2014 the power to democratize access to education on a scale never seen in history \u2014 we are just as excited about the promise that these new tools hold for colleges and universities throughout the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest revolution in higher ed &#8212; from The Boston Globe by Drew Faust (president of Harvard Univeristy) and L. Rafael Reif (president of MIT) Excerpt: In 1837, the Massachusetts Board of Education devoted part of its first annual report to praising a recent classroom innovation called the blackboard. This \u201cinvaluable and indispensible\u201d innovation enabled [&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":[36,35,62],"tags":[586,585,601],"class_list":["post-38000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-online-learning","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-online-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000","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=38000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38001,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000\/revisions\/38001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}