The MOOC on
current/future state of higher education started with presenting two current
trends that were said to be opposing: there's a need for bigger and better universities but for
smaller costs.
Without
profound changes they are of course incompatible. It's like Encyclopedia
Britannica would have wanted to double its volume (or amount of sold books)
without adding costs. We know how the story wound up.
There are
several thousand classmates attending this CFHE12 course. Input-wise: so far so
good. How about quality of learning? How about dropouts? If there are enough (and free) raw materials to be spared, does it matter in the end of the production line?
The fundamentals
of higher education lay on hierarchies. Now, the model of crowd-sourcing
knowledge like Wikipedia did is a very different one.
What would
a university be like, if it was not based on line organization but on something
else, like matrix organization or perhaps a neural network? Would that change the way you defined "higher" education?
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PS. Radical equality in the title refers to Juha Suoranta's and Tere Vadén's article in Learning the Virtual Life: Public Pedagogy in a Digital World.
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