{"id":41106,"date":"2013-07-08T17:55:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T21:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=41106"},"modified":"2013-07-08T17:58:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T21:58:35","slug":"my-comments-re-tamnys-article-online-education-will-be-the-next-bubble-to-pop-not-traditional-university-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/07\/08\/my-comments-re-tamnys-article-online-education-will-be-the-next-bubble-to-pop-not-traditional-university-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"My comments re: Tamny&#8217;s article, &#8220;Online Education Will Be the Next &#8216;Bubble&#8217; To Pop, Not Traditional University Learning&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">My comments on<\/span> <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johntamny\/2013\/06\/09\/online-education-will-be-the-next-bubble-to-pop-not-traditional-university-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\">Online Education Will Be the Next &#8216;Bubble&#8217; To Pop, Not Traditional University Learning<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong> &#8212; from Forbes.com by John Tamny<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From a 50,000 foot level&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>There is little question that higher education is a bubble.<\/strong> With the hollowing out of the middle class, and the vast majority of the nation&#8217;s wealth going to the top 1-5%, how does one think that the average person will be able to afford higher education in 5-10 years (given the current trajectories of decreasing incomes yet increasing costs of higher education)?\u00a0 <strong>Many can&#8217;t afford it *<em>now<\/em>*, even when they want to send their kids to college.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Given the status quo and the current trajectories, things don&#8217;t look good at all.\u00a0 I strongly disagree with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johntamny\/2013\/06\/09\/online-education-will-be-the-next-bubble-to-pop-not-traditional-university-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\">that article\/piece<\/a> &#8212; and my guess would be that the author of the piece:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Is pulling down a decent size salary and he doesn&#8217;t have to live from paycheck to paycheck <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8212; i.e. he doesn&#8217;t have to worry about where his next meal is coming from<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Is a proponent of the current status quo<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Has likely never taught online (or hasn&#8217;t for very long)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Hasn&#8217;t caught the vision of what MOOCs could morph into if something like IBM&#8217;s Watson, Apple&#8217;s Siri, or Google Now gets baked into the recipe<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Doesn&#8217;t understand that <em>those who thrive in the online learning world have to be highly-disciplined<\/em> &#8212; i.e. they are the type of person who fits the often asked for &#8220;self starter&#8221; and the type of employee corporations love because they don&#8217;t have to supervise them much<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">But when parents spend a fortune on their children\u2019s schooling they\u2019re not buying education; rather they\u2019re buying the \u2018right\u2019 friends for them, the right contacts for the future, access to the right husbands and wives, not to mention buying their own (&#8216;Our son goes to Williams College&#8217;) status.<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">This may be true. But even the 1% will change their perspectives if employers start picking their talent primarily from predominantly online-based programs.\u00a0 If Christensen and Horn are correct (which I believe they are), the innovations in the online world will continue to outpace innovations in the face-to-face world. Given time, the online-based programs could be mind-blowing. (That said, I still think blended learning is the most effective choice, as it combines the best of both worlds).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>But the bottom line here is that for most Americans, there had ***<em>better be<\/em>*** a higher education bubble!!!<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My comments on &#8220;Online Education Will Be the Next &#8216;Bubble&#8217; To Pop, Not Traditional University Learning&#8220; &#8212; from Forbes.com by John Tamny From a 50,000 foot level&#8230; There is little question that higher education is a bubble. With the hollowing out of the middle class, and the vast majority of the nation&#8217;s wealth going to [&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":[57,72,66],"tags":[52,290,603,728,572],"class_list":["post-41106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-daniel-s-christian","category-student-related","tag-budgetary","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-student-related","tag-united-states","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41106","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=41106"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41114,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41106\/revisions\/41114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}