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[new] The university of the future? (Avg. Score: none / Raters: 0) (#7)
by amy on Sat Mar 20th, 2004 at 09:37:33 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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As I think Peter was alluding to, maybe "net-educated" and "academically-or-otherwise-traditionally-educated" will merge soon. The cost-effective and hi-tech tasty benefits of Distance Learning have been an educational enticement for at least a decade - more recently, online classes have been joining the offerings. Granted, these classes aren't *exactly* self-taught.. but definitely moving closer to that 0 to 1,000 faculty student ratio necessitated by ever-declining education budgets. Of course, this is nothing new (nor is my complaint) - but just a slow expansion of what's been going on for a long time.

On a related note: Here's a project in progress by one of my colleagues, Adriene Jenik. It's a speculative fiction PDA performance project depicting life at a research university (ours) in 2030. In the specflic world, tuition is free, but the students basically get to be lab rats and eventually become enslaved to corporate sponsors. It's a hot marketing strategy for the uni. :-)

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