Threaded Bookmarks 08-February-2010

Three recent documents offer images of education in the future. I tried that once and concluded it’s better to build the future than anticipate it. Each of the three documents suffers similarly, but they are still well worth reading if the future of learning concerns you.

A National Skills College?

You’ve got to sympathize with folks who try to change education from positions within federal (U.S.) government. Read more.

University Fuses and Pricing

Pricing requires answers to tough questions about what, why, and how a college or university does what it does. If not teaching and learning, then what? Read more.

Think Twice About the Economic Stimulus Lifeline

This one is for my university friends who grapple every day with charting the future direction of their institutions. When it comes to the economic stimulus bill now being considered by Congress, you’ll want to ask yourself if manna from heaven is worth the price. Read more.

Imagining Tomorrow’s University

In this slidecast I try to imagine new types of postsecondary learning organizations. Read more.

Sketchy Business Plan for Tomorrow’s University

In this post I suggest one possible business plan for tomorrow’s universities. Read more.

Re: SocialLearn presentation in Elluminate

Lately I’ve been pondering whether there is anything in elearning comparable to Linus Torvalds’ kernel that launched Linux. Here I relate that question to the recent presentation on SocialLearn that Martin Weller made with moderation from George Siemens. Read more.

Re: The sweet spot in education

Martin Weller of the Open University seeks to find the sweet spot between Web 2.0 and education, and points to one possible future for learning. Here’s my reaction. Read more.

Notions of Tomorrow’s University

What might tomorrow’s university look like? Here’s one possibility. Read more.

Re: Better-Than-Ivy-Education: $7,376 a Year

Vance Fried proposes a new business model for a college that would provide undergraduate students with “value – a high quality product at a relatively low price.” Many more efforts like this are needed.
Read more.