Edge: THE IMPENDING DEMISE OF THE UNIVERSITY By Don Tapscott - 0 views
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Universities are finally losing their monopoly on higher learning, as the web inexorably becomes the dominant infrastructure for knowledge sweeney both as a container and as a global platform for knowledge exchange between people
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there is a widening gap between the model of learning offered by many big universities and the natural way that young people who have grown up digital best learn
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universities are not primarily institutes of higher learning, but institutes for science and research
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It's when the students talk about what they think is going on and why, that's where the biggest learning occurs for them
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It's not only what you know that really counts when you graduate; it's how you navigate in the digital world, and what you do with the information you discover
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The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a child of the pleasure and benefit of discovery
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once you start going to school, in some ways you start to learn much slower because you are being taught, rather than what happens if you're learning in order to do things that you yourself care about
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Why should a university student be restricted to learning from the professors at the university he or she is attending