{"id":7965,"date":"2010-08-10T09:53:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T13:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=7965"},"modified":"2010-08-10T09:54:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T13:54:31","slug":"saving-public-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/08\/10\/saving-public-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving public universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.convergemag.com\/infrastructure\/Saving-Public-Universities.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Saving public universities<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from convergemag.com by Jessica B. Mulholland<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As university budgets shrink, governors are searching for ways to  make the remaining education money more effective, Thomasian said. \u201cOne  of those ways to make it effective is for higher education to start  using a lot more online learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Debates about the rigor of online  versus traditional degrees abound, <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">but the truth is that the  recession is straining traditional public universities, tuitions are  continuously rising and students are being turned away from  already-overcrowded classrooms.<\/span><\/strong> So does online education offer a viable  alternative for delivering higher education, career retraining and  lifelong learning?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ray Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors  Association, thinks so. \u201cI really believe that higher education has to  move online,\u201d he said at the National Association of State Chief  Information Officers midyear meeting in Baltimore. \u201cPrivate universities  have done it; government will have to follow along.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A Broken Model?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ultimately the higher education system as we know it is in jeopardy,  and many contend that the model is already broken.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201cParticularly for the public institutions,\u201d Breneman said, \u201cif you  think their role and purpose is to serve the public in a broad way and  to be affordable and accessible, I think we are running a risk of  closing out opportunities to a substantial part of the youth population  if we aren\u2019t careful. We\u2019re shifting the cost from the general taxpayer,  which is what it has historically been, over to the families.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saving public universities &#8212; from convergemag.com by Jessica B. Mulholland As university budgets shrink, governors are searching for ways to make the remaining education money more effective, Thomasian said. \u201cOne of those ways to make it effective is for higher education to start using a lot more online learning.\u201d Debates about the rigor of online [&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":[57,36,35,62,214],"tags":[52,585,601,679],"class_list":["post-7965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-online-learning","category-universities","tag-budgetary","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-online-learning","tag-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965","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=7965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7968,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions\/7968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}