Re: article on entrepreneurship/technology in higher ed.

[Greg Tananbaum <gtananbaum@gmail.com>]

Apologies to the list for not including the URL:

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/138/who-needs-harvard.html?page=0%2C1

Best, Greg


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Greg Tananbaum <gtananbaum@gmail.com>wrote:

> Fast Company has a very interesting piece on how technical 
> innovations such as open courseware are attempting "to bridge 
> the gap between free material and cheap education".  Among the 
> provocative passages:
>
> Today, "open content" is the biggest front of innovation in 
> higher education. The movement that started at MIT has spread 
> to more than 200 institutions in 32 countries that have posted 
> courses online at the OpenCourseWare Consortium. But, as Wiley 
> [co-founder of a not-for-profit, online public charter high 
> school that draws on open courseware] points out, there's still 
> a big gap between viewing such resources as a homework aid and 
> building a recognized, accredited degree out of a bunch of 
> podcasts and YouTube videos. "Why is it that my kid can't take 
> robotics at Carnegie Mellon, linear algebra at MIT, law at 
> Stanford? And why can't we put 130 of those together and make 
> it a degree?" Wiley asks. "There are all these kinds of 
> innovations waiting to happen. A sufficient infrastructure of 
> freely available content is step one in a much longer endgame 
> that transforms everything we know about higher education." 
> Definitely worth a read for many list members.
>
> Best, Greg