[iDC] iCollege

[Michael Bauwens]

started this list:

http://p2pfoundation.net/Informal_Learning_Projects


----- Original Message ----
> From: Trebor Scholz <trebor at thing.net>
> To: idc at mailman.thing.net
> Sent: Mon, June 21, 2010 6:18:23 PM
> Subject: [iDC] iCollege
> 
> Education, caught up in a cost spiral, is in crisis. Tuition is on the 
rise 
> and in the foreseeable future, higher education will be as 
unaffordable as a 
> Prada bag. Anya Kamenetz' DIY U frames that well.

The future lies neither 
> solely in distance education nor in informal 
personal learning networks but 
> rather in hybrid approaches. What we are 
witnessing now are dress rehearsals 
> where "e.learning" is trying on the 
role of the cash cow that can deliver it 
> all and DIY universities 
sometimes make it sound as if they are the panacea. 
> The reality is 
somewhere in between. In the years to come, the university 
> will lose 
some of its centrality to informal learning projects (1) and 
> variants of 
profit-driven courseware. Let's stop pretending that this is not 
> 
happening. To succeed, however, the university will need to up its game 
> 
and make its boundaries more porous by meaningfully integrating emerging 
> 
ways of knowing and new social media (2).

(1) Please send more 
> examples of informal learning projects.
The Public School 
> (http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/)
University of the People 
> (http://www.uopeople.org/)
University of Openess 
> (http://uo.twenteenthcentury.com/)
Copenhagen Free University 
> 
(http://www.copenhagenfreeuniversity.dk/index.html)
Manoa Free University 
> (http://manoafreeuniversity.org/)
EduFactory 
> (http://www.edu-factory.org/)
Radical Education Collective 
> (http://radical.temp.si/)
Free Slow University of Warsaw 
> (http://www.wuw2009.pl/index.php?lang=eng)
Toronto School of Creativity & 
> Inquiry (http://www.tsci.ca/)

(2) I suggest some implementations of 
> social media in the classroom in 
this slideshow: 
> http://tinyurl.com/c2l6wy



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