Is the Transitional Bricks & Mortar University gone Forever? Will it be Replaced by Incubators Cities & On-Line Credits & Hands-on Learning?
Or will Universities be a hi-breed model of all the above - University/Incubator?
Core Problems Today and Why things are not Working.
Too many Universities Colleges/US & Universities in the US & Canada and too many degrees being pumped out in the wrong areas.
The Death of the Liberal Arts Undergrad ?
By: Demian Hammock,
Diploma of Advanced Studies Human Resources Management.
Articles of Interest !
Universities Academy Blog. Online Degrees for most employers is just fine.
Some employers have negative perception about the online degrees but this perception is changing rapidly. In 2013 a report found that many of the human resource managers and other company executives thought of online degrees as unaccredited programs which offered a degree to anyone who had sufficient money to pay.
A Yale Professor Is Cleared of Sexual Harassment, but Concerns Linger
A History of Complaints Problems dealing with sexual harassment have dogged the university for decades. The lawsuit Alexander v. Yale, which was decided in 1980 and alleged sexually inappropriate behavior by faculty against students. Comments By: Demian Hammock, Diploma of Advanced Studies Human Resources Management ."It’s odd that Universities that are so Political Correct are so quick to judge for example a first year student with no-connection with Sexual Harassment, but when it comes to Tenured Profs who have a history of misconduct nothing happens !
This Is The Future Of College. In the US you have to offer Post Graduate Studies/ PhD to be an University.
For years, college was the best pathway to a job. Experts say that within the next 10 to 15 years, the college experience will become rapidly unbundled. Lecture halls will disappear, the role of the professor will transform, and technology will help make a college education much more attainable than it is today, and much more valuable. Indeed, a number of institutions may shut down. But those that survive will be innovative and efficient. Here’s what they’ll look like.
Make sure you take a Degree worth taking !
New Study: Is No Degree Better Than A Liberal Arts Degree?One survey question asked hiring managers what degrees they preferred. Only 1.6% said liberal arts.
A new study by Forbes contributor Dan Schawbel, who runs Millennial Branding, a one-man research and consulting firm in Boston that's focused on millennials (born between the early '80s and the early 2000s), released a study today that comes to some conclusions I find startling. The most unsettling: If you [...]
Demian Hammock "Post Secondary Widget Machine." The Number of Ph.D.s Keeps Rising Despite Bad Job Numbers
Why do so many people continue to pursue doctorates? Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now > Laura McKenna is a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a former professor of political science at Ramapo College.
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Video Below - The Higher Education Bubble.
For Canadian viewers in the United States to be a University one has to grant a PhD. otherwise you called a College. So Undergrad Schools like Mount Allison University or Acadia University, in the US would fall into the category of being a College.
MARK CUBAN: This is just the start of the college implosion
This debt ultimately will outweigh most of the potential benefit you're getting from the college education, Cuban said. "What you thought you were going to get in quality of life by going to that college, you've just undermined with the amount of debt you're taking on," Cuban said.
The Problems with Exams at Universities and Colleges are they Simply being Lazy? The answer sadly is YES.
Why not use the 'Apprenticeship Model' more at universities and colleges after all it works.
I had asked one Professor why so much emphasis on exams? He indicated it is easier and quicker to grade than a paper let alone doing any type of apprenticeship model method of teaching e.g. hands-on learning.
Exams work for the institution not for the benefit of the stakeholders/students.
I remember talking to my Father one time, who is a former Professor what do you remember from your undergrad studies? He said he was not too sure.
Though what he did say surprised me a lot. He was in the US army and for the record, my Father is blind as a bat and could not programme a VCR if his life depended on it. He told me to this day he knows how to assemble and disassemble the rifle assigned to by the US army.
At the end of the day, he had to be able to assemble and disassemble his rifle blindfolded. This was done through repetition and it always works.
If you want people to remember some core concepts, nothing beats repetition.
All exams do is enable people to remember something in the short-term, not the long-term.
After exams what do most students do? Hit the bar and say thank god I pass my exam now I am going to drink to forget that exam and hopefully everything I have learned.
Credit done, time to move on to the next credit. So I can get enough credits to graduate and get the hell out of here. I just need that piece of paper.
For core concepts to be remembered repetition/hands-on learning work and exams do not.
What about critical thinking? I believe that is what papers are for. Though in many liberal arts classes, all I hear from students is if I want to do well in this paper I know this Prof wants to hear X, not my opinion. Critical thinking that is debatable depending on the Prof you have.
You can give people the skills by let's say hands-on learning or by repetition, but you cannot make a person think!
Also the very little basis for hands-on learning and learning by repetition.
I want people to remember the core concepts of what I am teaching them and have them know it 20 years later. I want them to know how to access the information. Maybe leave with a Web Portfolio of work they can show potential employers.
What I don't want are for people to forget everything I taught them five minutes after they figure out they got the credit.
As far as the student's opinion is concerned they can figure that out on their own. My job is to make sure they understand the core concepts and the information are correct. I also want the students to know where to look for the information because information is constantly changing. If I have done the following correctly. I have done my job well.
By: Demian Hammock,
Diploma of Advanced Studies Human Resources.
Repetition Works, but Exams Don't. Let's Do It Again . . . and Again! Why is Repetition Important to Learning? - Nemours Reading BrightStart!
Think back to when you learned to ride a bike, drive a car or play a new sport. First, you needed to learn the essential skills. Then it was all about practice and more practice until you increased your confidence, improved your speed and became skilled.
Article of the Week.
"In the eyes of many, yes. David Wiley, a professor at Brigham Young University, recently claimed that the modern university "will be irrelevant by 2020." Why pay for expensive, boring lectures when you can tap the same vein - for free - with lectures on your iPod?"
Smaller Universities/Rural Universities in Canada &US to become Extinct?
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Is this the New Under Grad of the Future?
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
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Need an skill to get a job ! Courses : Cost many times free or next to nothing - MOOCs.
Find online courses from top universities. Search all edX MOOCs from Harvard, MIT and more and enroll in a free course today.
Post Secondary Educational Models, What the New Under Grad Might Look like !
Suggested Reading By: Demian Hammock,Diploma of Advanced Studies Human Resources Management .Impact | Student Hubs
Universities do not have the resources to tackle this problem alone. Recent research highlights the need for a national infrastructure to ensure the sustainability of student social action. Infrastructure support has fluctuated from decade to decade . Various organisations have provided some level of sustained support, but funding has been unreliable.
The Future of the University: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education. Suggested Reading By : Demian Hammock, Diploma of Advanced Studies Human Resources.
This essay proposes five models of innovation in higher education that expand our "Ideas of the University," envisioning educational start-ups in the spirit of entrepreneurial experimentation. The author seeks to realize each of these feasible utopias as a way to disrupt higher education. As I write this, the university reportedly is in crisis.
Comments By: Demian Hammock On - line University. It works around your schedule. Don't have move and deal roommates. Why Not ?
As an open university, anyone can be an Athabasca University student.
Articles on Interest. The End of the Under Grad?
Maybe the undergrad makes no sense anymore, just like the one house school it will only
be something we only see in the movies?
After all "The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan.
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Example of an University Working Hand & Hand with the Community.
Top 5 ways UWinnipeg has transformed downtown. Demian Hammock - This University is Working Hand & Hand with the Community & Enrollment is way Up! It is as much as Incubator as it is an University. This is Future of Education & it's a GOOD THING !
People living and working in downtown Winnipeg have seen a dramatic change over the past decade, as the University of Winnipeg expands its footprint. From 2004 to 2014, the university's downtown campus has grown both in bricks and mortar and in community outreach.