Good points Trebor. A few more examples of informal or free learning projects: <br><br>Bruce High Quality Foundation University: <br><a href="http://www.bhqfu.org/Site/home.html" target="_blank">http://www.bhqfu.org/Site/home.html</a> <br>
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Free University Project: <br><a href="http://www.freeuniv.com/aboutbgr.html" target="_blank">http://www.freeuniv.com/aboutbgr.html</a> <br><br><br>Best,<br><br><br>Lucia<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Trebor Scholz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trebor@thing.net">trebor@thing.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Education, caught up in a cost spiral, is in crisis. Tuition is on the<br>
rise and in the foreseeable future, higher education will be as<br>
unaffordable as a Prada bag. Anya Kamenetz' DIY U frames that well.<br>
<br>
The future lies neither solely in distance education nor in informal<br>
personal learning networks but rather in hybrid approaches. What we are<br>
witnessing now are dress rehearsals where "e.learning" is trying on the<br>
role of the cash cow that can deliver it all and DIY universities<br>
sometimes make it sound as if they are the panacea. The reality is<br>
somewhere in between. In the years to come, the university will lose<br>
some of its centrality to informal learning projects (1) and variants of<br>
profit-driven courseware. Let's stop pretending that this is not<br>
happening. To succeed, however, the university will need to up its game<br>
and make its boundaries more porous by meaningfully integrating emerging<br>
ways of knowing and new social media (2).<br>
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(1) Please send more examples of informal learning projects.<br>
The Public School (<a href="http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/" target="_blank">http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/</a>)<br>
University of the People (<a href="http://www.uopeople.org/" target="_blank">http://www.uopeople.org/</a>)<br>
University of Openess (<a href="http://uo.twenteenthcentury.com/" target="_blank">http://uo.twenteenthcentury.com/</a>)<br>
Copenhagen Free University<br>
(<a href="http://www.copenhagenfreeuniversity.dk/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.copenhagenfreeuniversity.dk/index.html</a>)<br>
Manoa Free University (<a href="http://manoafreeuniversity.org/" target="_blank">http://manoafreeuniversity.org/</a>)<br>
EduFactory (<a href="http://www.edu-factory.org/" target="_blank">http://www.edu-factory.org/</a>)<br>
Radical Education Collective (<a href="http://radical.temp.si/" target="_blank">http://radical.temp.si/</a>)<br>
Free Slow University of Warsaw (<a href="http://www.wuw2009.pl/index.php?lang=eng" target="_blank">http://www.wuw2009.pl/index.php?lang=eng</a>)<br>
Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry (<a href="http://www.tsci.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.tsci.ca/</a>)<br>
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(2) I suggest some implementations of social media in the classroom in<br>
this slideshow: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/c2l6wy" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/c2l6wy</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Lucia Sommer<br>60 College Street<br>Buffalo, NY 14201<br>(716) 359-3061<br><br>