On 12/10/2010 21:37, David Gerard wrote:
On 12 October 2010 21:36, David
Gerard<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Browne. Gah! It's right there in the URL!
There is something odd about the last fifty years of tertiary education,
which is how little the model has really changed. (Arguments over how to
fund it rather mask the point.) The demographic is very different, the
scale is very different, but what universities are all about is not so
different. There might be a step-change on the way, presaged by a new
attitude to books that is visible already. The idea that one learns both
socially and intellectually from contact with one's peer group (pretty
much defined as age group plus some social and intellectual stratum
restriction) is more deeply embedded than ever: few people expect to
learn from a "master" now. Therefore any new model is not going to be
distance learning as such.
Charles