[p2p-research] George Siemens Blogs On Future of Universities

[Samuel Rose]

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/25/09, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > He claims (contra my assertion) that uni's not dying but starting to
> reform.
> >  States problem is vision of the future.
> >
> >
> http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2009/04/25/rough-week-for-higher-education/
>
> The main problem with the university IMO is that the only things
> really needed for learning are the learner and teacher, and access to
> the information.  It's frequently unnecessary for the learner and
> teacher to occupy the same physical space--and when it is necessary in
> most cases just about any space close to a library and Internet access
> will probably do, unless some sort of specialized and
> capital-intensive lab facility is required.  (cf. Franz Nahrada, with
> "public school" functions carried out in storefront rooms and other ad
> hoc spaces all over the village).



I agree with this.

I can attest that I do benefit from mutual learning via coworking. So
physical presence is important, but need not always be highly centralized.

One of the areas where Universities can currently still shine are in
pursuits such as biological science, particle accelerators, certain
engineering pursuits.

Even in these cases, the University could be like an accelerator, that then
also helps to seed the projects by opening the IP and letting many work on
development in parallel.



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