{"id":40680,"date":"2013-06-19T11:05:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T15:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=40680"},"modified":"2013-06-19T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T20:08:11","slug":"reflection-on-mooc-skeptical-provosts-rivard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/06\/19\/reflection-on-mooc-skeptical-provosts-rivard\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;MOOC-Skeptical Provosts&#8221; [Rivard]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2013\/06\/19\/big-10-provosts-question-partnerships-ed-tech-companies\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MOOC-Skeptical Provosts<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Ry Rivard<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The provosts of Big 10 universities and the University of Chicago are in high-level talks to create an online education network across their campuses, which collectively enroll more than 500,000 students a year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And these provosts from some of America\u2019s top research universities have concluded that they \u2013 not corporate entrepreneurs and investors &#8212; must drive online education efforts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But the provosts are now questioning universities&#8217; need to partner with external providers in the first place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThe main thing for us is&#8230; how can the CIC schools be proactive in terms of innovation and learning?\u201d he said. \u201cHow can we be of more benefit to students jointly?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Right now, the high-level talks among administrators has yet to trickle down to faculty. Provost Adesida said the Illinois faculty will play a big role in deciding whatever comes next.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWe don\u2019t move without consulting with faculty,\u201d Adesida said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I don&#8217;t think MOOCs are done baking yet&#8230;but&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Funny how a little serious competition causes some eyes and ears to be open to change.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Funny how Thrun and Koller\/Ng had to leave traditional higher ed in order to develop Udacity and Coursera, respectively.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Funny how when one&#8217;s peers finally move forward with something, <em>then<\/em> one thinks that now they need to move forward with that same thing.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Funny how folks are suddenly interested in innovation when their wallets\/enrollments\/businesses are being impacted.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Funny how higher ed wakes up from partaking in its own conversations\/journals\/publications\/research when the true &#8220;customers&#8221; now have choices.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I wonder how much more innovation we might actually see from insider higher education<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learndash.com\/5-companies-likely-to-buy-coursera\/\" target=\"_blank\">if a big player does purchase Coursera&#8230;?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Addendums:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/peter-weddle\/the-academeacademic-compl_b_3440587.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Academe-Academic Complex <\/a>&#8211;<\/strong>&#8211; from HuffingtonPost.com by Peter Weddle<br \/>\n<em>Excerpt:<\/em><br \/>\nNow, to be perfectly clear, a college education is absolutely essential for many jobs in a modern economy. It is not, however, sufficient for sustained or even initial employment &#8212; at least as that education is currently delivered. What&#8217;s missing? An equally rigorous education in the body of knowledge and set of skills required for effective career self-management. Why? Because for the past 75 years, America&#8217;s colleges and universities have been graduating career idiot savants. They&#8217;ve taught their students a whole lot about this or that field of study, but absolutely nothing about how to make a career in those fields.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nFrom discovering one&#8217;s inherent talent to setting effective short and long goals, from dealing with the inevitable obstacles that arise in a career to ensuring one&#8217;s expertise stays at the state-of-the-art, there is more than enough to be taught, more than enough to be learned in a career self-management course of study, and it&#8217;s high time the academe-academic complex embraced it.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/n\/2013-03-14-mozilla-s-debuts-open-badges-to-showcase-out-of-school-learning-and-skills\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mozilla&#8217;s debuts Open Badges to showcase out-of-school learning and skills<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edsurge.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/n\/2013-03-14-mozilla-s-debuts-open-badges-to-showcase-out-of-school-learning-and-skills\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.edsurge.com\/uploads\/photo\/image\/100\/openbadges.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOOC-Skeptical Provosts &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Ry Rivard Excerpt: The provosts of Big 10 universities and the University of Chicago are in high-level talks to create an online education network across their campuses, which collectively enroll more than 500,000 students a year. And these provosts from some of America\u2019s top research universities have concluded that [&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":[171,72,36,35,3,505,239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consortiums","category-daniel-s-christian","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-new-business-models"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40680","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=40680"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40688,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40680\/revisions\/40688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}