The concepts called access and barrier have fundamentally defined the concept called civilization (or progress).
A new class of Universities is being conceived of as you are reading this post. Today we have classifications such as Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Universities. What shall be the next category that the classification needs to include? What shall we call it? I shall just call it Liberal Universities just to suggest that the very fabric of the knowledge organization shall become increasingly more liberal without the usual snobbishness that the dominant image of an average professor/teacher is attributed with. And, thus, the Paradigm of Education shall change.
Many of us may not be aware of the tectonic civilizational shifts that the Internet is inducing. An exciting tectonic shift has started happening in the Education sector. If trends such as those in the web-links provided below are successful, affordable access to high quality education may be like buying cars or washing machines. The effect shall be that we shall not value possession of certificates more than possession of ability to collaborate, formalize problems, solve things, or be creative. You need not go to Stanford University to gain access to the knowledge there.
The strategic and intellectual advantage that Stanford University or MIT, for examples, shall gain globally shall be unparalleled in human history. Now access to education is being democratized and I believe that education itself shall be democratized when any worthy individual can set up a reputed university or school without meteoric capital or operational expenditure like Khan Academy or the Athabasca University. And anybody can access knowledge of their choosing without having to prove that they indeed can. Thus, the process of knowledge generation, dissemination, and consumption shall be democratized.
The impact shall be that possession of certificates or knowledge shall not be a differentiator. The individual's ability to collaborate, formalized problems, solve problems, or be creative shall be the sole differentiation -- as it should be the case ideally. Thus, the Internet would have provided its true value to humanity.
For example: most Indians, Chinese, Brazilians, South Africans, or Indonesians, this would mean that the first immediate need for emigration need not be access to high quality education. What will the new first immediate need for emigration be? I guess that it would be to meet people that we like or wish to meet, which may have been the case originally -- thus taking us through a full civilization circle of access barriers.
https://www.coursera.org/
http://mitx.mit.edu/
http://www.khanacademy.org/
http://www.athabascau.ca/
A new class of Universities is being conceived of as you are reading this post. Today we have classifications such as Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Universities. What shall be the next category that the classification needs to include? What shall we call it? I shall just call it Liberal Universities just to suggest that the very fabric of the knowledge organization shall become increasingly more liberal without the usual snobbishness that the dominant image of an average professor/teacher is attributed with. And, thus, the Paradigm of Education shall change.
Many of us may not be aware of the tectonic civilizational shifts that the Internet is inducing. An exciting tectonic shift has started happening in the Education sector. If trends such as those in the web-links provided below are successful, affordable access to high quality education may be like buying cars or washing machines. The effect shall be that we shall not value possession of certificates more than possession of ability to collaborate, formalize problems, solve things, or be creative. You need not go to Stanford University to gain access to the knowledge there.
The strategic and intellectual advantage that Stanford University or MIT, for examples, shall gain globally shall be unparalleled in human history. Now access to education is being democratized and I believe that education itself shall be democratized when any worthy individual can set up a reputed university or school without meteoric capital or operational expenditure like Khan Academy or the Athabasca University. And anybody can access knowledge of their choosing without having to prove that they indeed can. Thus, the process of knowledge generation, dissemination, and consumption shall be democratized.
The impact shall be that possession of certificates or knowledge shall not be a differentiator. The individual's ability to collaborate, formalized problems, solve problems, or be creative shall be the sole differentiation -- as it should be the case ideally. Thus, the Internet would have provided its true value to humanity.
For example: most Indians, Chinese, Brazilians, South Africans, or Indonesians, this would mean that the first immediate need for emigration need not be access to high quality education. What will the new first immediate need for emigration be? I guess that it would be to meet people that we like or wish to meet, which may have been the case originally -- thus taking us through a full civilization circle of access barriers.
https://www.coursera.org/
http://mitx.mit.edu/
http://www.khanacademy.org/
http://www.athabascau.ca/
