Ward Family

Hi All,

Just read an interesting item at http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/138/who-needs-harvard.html?page=0%2C0 "How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education" Sounds like a move toward unschooling university - what a nice thought.

A couple of quotes:

"The transformation of education may happen faster than we realize. However futuristic it may seem, what we're living through is an echo of the university's earliest history. Universitas doesn't mean campus, or class, or a particular body of knowledge; it means the guild, the group of people united in scholarship. ..."

"Today, we've gone from scarcity of knowledge to unimaginable abundance. It's only natural that these new, rapidly evolving information technologies would convene new communities of scholars, both inside and outside existing institutions. The string-quartet model of education is no longer sustainable. The university of the future can't be far away."

Julie Ward


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