{"id":6150,"date":"2010-06-11T15:10:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T19:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=6150"},"modified":"2010-06-11T15:12:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T19:12:59","slug":"higher-education-returning-to-the-topic-of-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/06\/11\/higher-education-returning-to-the-topic-of-bubbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher education &#8212; returning to the topic of bubbles&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Stephen Downes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/cgi-bin\/page.cgi?post=52636\" target=\"_blank\">Is  the Higher Education Bubble Going to Burst?<\/a><\/strong>There has been more and more discussion of the education bubble,  especially in light of online learning. Alison Leithner links to an  editorial by Glenn  Reynolds in the Washington Examiner and summarizes, &#8220;Reynolds  claims that, similar to many properties sold during the housing market  bubble, the value of university education today is simply not worth the  amount of money people currently are paying. Reynolds also proposes that  consumers are starting to realize this.&#8221; Leithner herself is sceptical.  &#8220;\u00c8mployers will still need some way to filter out the exceptional  candidates for their posted positions. They will just find a new  criterion upon which to judge people. If the higher education bubble  burst, it will surely be because a new bubble has started to form.  Alison  Leithner,  Change.org,  June 9, 2010 4:34 p.m..<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationfutures.com\/2010\/06\/09\/is-youtube-bursting-higher-educations-bubble-not-so-fast\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Is YouTube bursting higher education\u2019s bubble? Not so fast\u2026 <\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from Education Futures by John Moravec<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>From DSC:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvin.edu\/~dsc8\/walmartofeducation.htm\" target=\"_blank\">This link provides my thoughts on where we&#8217;re heading.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Stephen Downes: Is the Higher Education Bubble Going to Burst?There has been more and more discussion of the education bubble, especially in light of online learning. Alison Leithner links to an editorial by Glenn Reynolds in the Washington Examiner and summarizes, &#8220;Reynolds claims that, similar to many properties sold during the housing market bubble, [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35,3],"tags":[586,585,566,572],"class_list":["post-6150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-higher-education","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150","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=6150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6155,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions\/6155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}