{"id":77647,"date":"2021-12-03T15:12:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T20:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=77647"},"modified":"2021-12-03T15:12:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T20:12:48","slug":"no-textbooks-no-lectures-and-no-right-answers-is-this-what-higher-education-needs-mcmurtrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/12\/03\/no-textbooks-no-lectures-and-no-right-answers-is-this-what-higher-education-needs-mcmurtrie\/","title":{"rendered":"No Textbooks, No Lectures, and No Right Answers. Is This What Higher Education Needs? [McMurtrie]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/no-textbooks-no-lectures-and-no-right-answers-is-this-what-higher-education-needs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>No Textbooks, No Lectures, and No Right Answers. Is This What Higher Education Needs?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from chronicle.com by Beth McMurtrie<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC: Though this was back from 2\/10\/19, Beth recently linked to it on <em>The Chronicle<\/em> and it caught my eye due to it&#8217;s focus on solving real-world issues and problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Tackling big problems is the point of JMU X-Labs, a four-year-old experiment in undergraduate education. Through a blend of interdisciplinary collaboration, project-based learning, and unscripted, open-ended research, each course takes students through the long and often aggravating process of developing new ways of thinking about complex problems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">They might design drones to help with environmental problems, tackle foreign-policy challenges, build autonomous vehicles, or develop medical innovations to help with the opioid crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Textbooks, No Lectures, and No Right Answers. Is This What Higher Education Needs? &#8212; from chronicle.com by Beth McMurtrie From DSC: Though this was back from 2\/10\/19, Beth recently linked to it on The Chronicle and it caught my eye due to it&#8217;s focus on solving real-world issues and problems. Excerpts: Tackling big problems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,302,71,3,419,173,486,480,293,66,50,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-pedagogy","category-real-world-assignments","category-society","category-sociology","category-student-related","category-teaching-learning","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77647","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=77647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77648,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77647\/revisions\/77648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}