{"id":7231,"date":"2010-07-15T16:36:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T20:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=7231"},"modified":"2010-07-15T16:40:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T20:40:53","slug":"bending-the-educational-cost-curve-joshua-kim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/07\/15\/bending-the-educational-cost-curve-joshua-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"Bending the educational cost curve &#8212; Joshua Kim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/technology_and_learning\/bending_the_educational_cost_curve\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bending the educational cost curve<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Joshua Kim<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Technology will be one of the essential factors if we hope to bend  the educational cost curve. Like health care, but unlike other consumer  goods and services, tuition in the past two-decades has risen much  faster than either real wages or inflation. Where in real dollars the  costs of products such as computers, cars, durable goods and food have  decreased while quality has improved, education costs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2010\/06\/30\/naicu\" target=\"_blank\">have risen between 4 and 6 percent each year.<\/a> The  cost of paying for education is increasingly shifted from public to  private payers, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/07\/13\/california1\" target=\"_blank\">states reduce support for public institutions,<\/a> forcing students to borrow more to pay the tuition bills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">How can  technology help bend the higher ed cost curve?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">One of the main points that Kamenetz brought home to me in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DIY-Edupunks-Edupreneurs-Transformation-Education\/dp\/1603582347\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1278894895&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming  Transformation of Higher Education<\/em><\/a> is that tuition trends will  not moderate (or decrease) until higher ed becomes more productive. This  means educating more students without spending more money. We need our  institutions to become less selective, to admit more applicants, while  at the same time increasing the quality and relevance of the education  that is received.<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> The leadership within our institutions, the presidents  and provosts and deans and chairs etc., should be asking the CIOs and  the academic technology directors about how we can increase  productivity. And people in educational technology leadership positions  should be making this our number one priority. We all need to  participate and succeed in the bending the educational cost curve<\/span><\/strong><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> (emphasis DSC).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bending the educational cost curve &#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Joshua Kim Technology will be one of the essential factors if we hope to bend the educational cost curve. Like health care, but unlike other consumer goods and services, tuition in the past two-decades has risen much faster than either real wages or inflation. 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