Last fall, David Wiley stood in front of a room full of professors and university administrators and delivered a prediction that made them squirm: “Your institutions will be irrelevant by 2020.”
Wiley is one part Nostradamus and nine parts revolutionary, an educational evangelist who preaches about a world where students listen to lectures on iPods, and those lectures are also available online to everyone anywhere for free. Course materials are shared between universities, science labs are virtual, and digital textbooks are free.
Institutions that don’t adapt, he says, risk losing students to institutions that do. The warning applies to community colleges and ivy-covered universities, says Wiley, who is a professor of psychology and instructional technology at Brigham Young University.
America’s colleges and universities, says Wiley, have been acting as if what they offer — access to educational materials, a venue for socializing, the awarding of a credential — can’t be obtained anywhere else. By and large, campus-based universities haven’t been innovative, he says, because they’ve been a monopoly.
But Google, Facebook, free online access to university lectures, after-hours institutions such as the University of Phoenix, and virtual institutions such as Western Governors University have changed that. Many of today’s students, he says, aren’t satisfied with the old model that expects them to go to a lecture hall at a prescribed time and sit still while a professor talks for an hour.
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I heard somewhere that colleges were carrying way too many post grads on their budget. Eating up the student tuitions. Or wasting all the government grant money on bloated staff. Colleges aren’t being run like an efficient business. Because they don’t have to. And as long as they control what can be accredited as a degree in something. They’re not likely to be replaced by an online or virtual college. It’s not like newspapers, being replaced by blogs or online sources. And as long as there’s a certain snob value, to attending college, they’re not likely to go away. In fact I’ve wondered why they haven’t built more colleges, to handle the population increase? But obviously, with US jobs being outsourced and foreign visaed workers replacing american grads. The demand for college training must be falling off, as an impractical luxury indulgence.
“In fact I’ve wondered why they haven’t built more colleges, to handle the population increase?”
Well on one hand they have but they are extensions of the larger colleges or community colleges. On the other hand the existing colleges have just gotten bigger.
Once again, SN’s choice of pix is designed to keep actual women far away from Dvorak Uncensored.
Real women must scare the hell out of this kid.
ah you crazy angry people, if it was a man holding his pants tight you’d be saying otherwise, sure love double standards..
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yes… come to class
no… cannot come to class.
yes-no coming to class
digital classes can reach billions.
microsoft windows used by a billion people.
one OS used by a billion people.
one college can be access by a billion people.