Higher Education Is Stuck in the Middle Ages -- Will Universities Adapt or Die Off in Our Digital World?


	Higher Education Is Stuck in the Middle Ages -- Will Universities Adapt or Die Off in Our Digital World?

JICWyllie

6-19-2009 5:54 AM

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1-education, 2-change, 3-advocated, 4-us

JICWyllie says:

Is it time to read "Deschooling Society" by Ivan Illych again? It was all about free, non-institutionalised learning networks.

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6-19-2009 10:22 AM

Satchamo

I'll have to go find "Deschooling Society", written in 1971. He talks about a learning web in 1971, before computers.

6-19-2009 10:50 AM

JICWyllie

It's a great book.

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