In yesterday’s post I wrote about how the “race to the bottom” in the free economy of the Internet was changing the way that American (and global) companies do business in many sectors. Today I want to speculate on what that will mean for American higher education–an industry that ignores market forces at its peril….
Tag: web 2.0
The End of Western Civilization as We Know It
Over the past couple of years I’ve written a number of posts in which I wrestle with what technological change means for the future of higher education, general education, and history education specifically. Much of my speculating and ranting in these posts has centered on what seems to me to be a clash between the…
Happy Birthday Digital Campus
Digital Campus, the podcast I do with Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt, is officially one year-old this week. Our 23rd episode is up and available for your listening pleasure and all three of us are pretty happy to have made it through a whole year of podcasting. Given how busy we all are, I’m particularly…
The Open Professor
Stephanie Rosenbloom wrote a very interesting piece in yesterday’s New York Times titled “The Professor as Open Book.” In the article, Rosenbloom neatly captures the tension between a desire by college and university faculty members to be more open to their students and the desire by those same faculty members to maintain some semblance of…