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Title:

Using These Things Called Computers to Overhaul Universities

Your vote:
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Organizer:
Kelly Sutton, HackCollege
Description:
The cost of attending a university has become prohibitively expensive with tuition rates outpacing inflation sevenfold, yet the bachelor’s degree continues to mean less and less. How has the American university become so expensive and so ineffective? How is social and distributed technology the answer?
Questions
Answered:
  1. What is the current state of a typical campus’s technology?
  2. How has the reliance on paper-centric workflows inhibited universities and kept costs high?
  3. How can Twitter and Facebook save universities money?
  4. How are proprietary technologies such as Blackboard sapping the life and money out of universities?
  5. What have been some successful implementations of cost-cutting technophilic solutions?
  6. How have student-driven solutions solved the tech problems of a universities?
  7. Have there been any successful top-down implementations of social technologies on the campus?
  8. How is student debt and jobless rates of recent graduates affecting tech programs at their alma mater?
  9. How have students effectively dealt with technophobic professors?
  10. What are some still untapped ideas for solving educational-related problems?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Community / Online Community, Education, Open Source, Social Issues, Social Networking
Type:
Solo
Event:
Interactive 2010
T.J. Misny
on 22/8/09
this sounds like an essential topic that isn't being addressed in universities. i'd like to see this one.
Sloane Berrent
on 2/9/09
Having spent the better part of 2009 outside the US and seeing how higher education is tackled in developing countries, I'd like to see this topic and where you think US universities need to head to fix their inefficiencies.
michael galpert
on 7/9/09
if kids are more connected than teachers they will lose respect for their educators. this panel is a must for shedding a light on the current/future states of technology in education.
www nice
on 1/12/09
It would be nice to see the Midwest represented at SXSW Interactive
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