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Universities in the "Free" Era

Event Interactive 2010
Format Solo
Organizer Glenn Platt Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies, Miami University
Description MIT, Yale, Stanford, and others put lectures online. Chris Anderson argues all university lectures should be free. From Academic Earth to TED, it's free. So what is the value-add of a university education? What models of higher education will survive? How will universities leverage the social web to reinvent themselves?
Questions
Answered
  1. Who was John Houseman?
  2. What resources out there offer the equivalent of a classic higher education experience?
  3. What value is there in today's university?
  4. What does UX/Experience design teach us about what universities should be doing?
  5. How should universities leverage the social web?
  6. What would the curriculum, institutional structure, tuition, faculty, and face of succesful university 2.0 look like?
  7. Which schools get it?
  8. What is interactive about a podcast?
  9. How should industry reposition itself to higher education (and visa versa)?
  10. How can we get there from here?
Level Intermediate
Category Community / Online Community, Education, Social Networking, User Experience