[p2p-research] Universities Irrelevant by 2020?

[marc fawzi]

Michel,

I would nudge you (if I can) in the direction of doing the PhD just because
you'd want to have the leverage of the existing system while you work to
create (or promote) a new one.

It's impossible to move the earth with a lever (from Greek lit I think)
unless it's hinged to something else, so the same with trying to move P2P to
the next level; the lever has to be hinged on the existing system.

Marc

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> In 11 years? Ryan, that is delusional ...
>
> It takes generations for this type of change to occur
>
> we're barely starting to talk about peer and self accreditation, there are
> no sedimented practices yet
>
> of course, more and more people, like us, will learn more and more outside
> channels, finding universities irrelevant for learning (which is why I'm
> hesitating so much to do a phd, the only benefit being social recognition,
> not learning per se), but for the mass of the population, and the mainstream
> institutional world, there will be a long mutual adaptation, until new trust
> forms are sufficiently developed for general acceptance of learning.
>
> one should never confuse one's own situation, with the general reality;
> things will change, and sometimes non-linearly, but I think it's a very safe
> bet to say universities will be there in 2020; not only that, seeing from
> Asia, there growing like hell, (just as newspapers by the way, there's no
> crisis here, on the contrary)
>
> Michel
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm not the only lunatic....
>>
>> This from Kurzweil's group...
>>
>>
>> *************************
>> Universities will be 'irrelevant'
>> by 2020
>> Deseret News April 20, 2009
>> *************************
>> Universities will be irrelevant by
>> 2020 in a world where students
>> listen to free online lectures on
>> iPods, course materials are shared
>> between universities, science labs
>> are virtual, and digital textbooks
>> are free, says Brigham Young
>> University professor of psychology
>> and instructional technology David
>> Wiley....
>> http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=10454&m=44482
>>
>>
>> Ryan Lanham
>>
>>
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