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A new university – A more diverse education?
I am biased for the establishment of new educational institutions. This comes probably, from being enrolled for such institution during my BA. The college was rather new, but the school of communication into which I was accepted was founded only that year. I was part of the first class ever, and as much had my share of problems, ranging from the occasional less-than-satisfactory curriculum on the one hand and bad press reception of my anticipated degree on the other.
I remembered all this while reading Doug Clow’s post on the New College of Humanities in London. This is a new private for-profit institution, which flashes the names of some of the best Humanities scholars around, but demands £54k tuition fees. I urge you to read Clow’s post, but I also wanted to offer some personal thoughts.
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Personal Knowledge Network
I ran across the concept of PKN (Personal Knowledge Network) the other day, and found it really relevant for anyone working in modern information sphere, especially education.
As the almighty Wikipedia describes it:
Personal knowledge management (PKM) refers to a collection of processes that an individual carries out to gather, classify, store, search, retrieve, and share knowledge in his/her daily activities (Grundspenkis 2007) and how these processes support work activities (Wright 2005). It is a response to the idea that knowledge workers increasingly need to be responsible for their own growth and learning (Smedley 2009) and represents a bottom-up approach to knowledge management, as opposed to more traditional, top-down KM (Pollard 2008).Read more »
RSAnimate – Changing Education Paradigms
In case you’ve missed this brilliant thing:
Learning and Earning
We go to school (college/ university) to learn new things. Why do we do that? The answer, which may seem straightforward to some is tricky to others. If you want better jobs, you need to study engineering and business professions, as Maureen Downey discusses in her blogpost on recent study, which found strong connections between chosen college majors and the salaries of the graduates.
Most of us will agree that learning is a way to better ourselves. But bettering ourselves holds different meanings. The first group of learners want to get out of their education institution sa quickly as possible and begin their “real life”. For them, education is a steppingstone to a higher salaries and better life quality. They are determined and treat their education as a tool. They may even not like what they’re studying at all, but still go with it. This is a common and realistic position. For these people, eFaqt may be a great tool in a way that it makes hard material understandably accessible.
Another group is of those who choose study for study’s sake. These are the art and philosophy students (but also the chemists and physicists) who get up every morning with fire in their eyes, and march on to conquer their selected field. For them, eFaqt might be even better allocation of their time, since it will build a long-lasting database of knowledge, that will help them in their future studies and interests with the field.
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