{"id":13545,"date":"2012-02-14T09:56:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T14:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13545"},"modified":"2012-02-14T09:56:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T14:56:29","slug":"envisioning-the-all-online-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/14\/envisioning-the-all-online-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Envisioning the all-online university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/02\/envisioning-a-post-campus-america\/253032\/\" target=\"_blank\">Megan McArdle<\/a> on the recent announcement that MIT will be offering online programs (at lower cost than regular courses) and if this is a sign of the future (as it almost certainly is) what changes will occur in the realm of higher education:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I can see all sorts of factors that might combine to preserve the status quo, from signaling and status and networking, to the desire of college students for a four-year debt-financed semi-vacation. On the other hand, disruption never looks inevitable until it suddenly is &mdash; if you&#8217;d told someone in 1955 that GM was going to have its lunch eaten by some Japanese upstart, they would have laughed until the tears came. So it&#8217;s interesting and maybe even useful to contemplate what the college system would look like if this sort of distance learning becomes the norm.<\/p>\n<p>1.  <em>Education will end up being dominated by a few huge incumbents.<\/em> [. . .]<\/p>\n<p>2.  <em>Online education will kill the liberal arts degree.<\/em> [. . .]<\/p>\n<p>3.  <em>Professors (course developers) will be selected for teaching instead of research brilliance.<\/em> [. . .]<\/p>\n<p>4.  <em>95% of tenure-track professors will lose their jobs.<\/em> [. . .] <\/p>\n<p>5.  <em>The corollary of #4 is the end of universities as research centers.<\/em> [. . .]<\/p>\n<p>6.  <em>Young job-seekers will need new ways to signal diligence.<\/em> [. . .]<\/p>\n<p>7.  <em>The economics of graduate school will change substantially.<\/em> [. . .]<\/p>\n<p>8.  <em>Civil society will have to substitute for the intense friend networks that are built at college.<\/em> [. . .] <\/p>\n<p>9.  <em>The role of schooling in upward mobility will change.<\/em> [. . .]<\/p>\n<p>10.  <em>The young will have a much lower financial burden in their 20s.<\/em> [. . .]<\/p>\n<p>11.  <em>The tutoring industry will boom.<\/em> [. . .]<\/p>\n<p>12.  <em>If the credentials become valuable, cheating will be a problem.<\/em> [. . .]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan McArdle on the recent announcement that MIT will be offering online programs (at lower cost than regular courses) and if this is a sign of the future (as it almost certainly is) what changes will occur in the realm of higher education: I can see all sorts of factors that might combine to preserve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[58,513,593,764],"class_list":["post-13545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-technology","tag-internet","tag-research","tag-socialmedia","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3wt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13546,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13545\/revisions\/13546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}