"Digital technologies are making the scarcities on which higher education is based disappear. Smith outlines how universities can take advantage of educational abundance to create a system that is more fair and just"--
"Digital technologies are making the scarcities on which higher education is based disappear. Smith outlines how universities can take advantage of educational abundance to create a system that is more fair and just"--
Michael D. Smith is J. Erik Jonsson Professor of Information Technology and Marketing at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Public Policy and Management. Smith is coauthor of the book Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment (MIT Press).
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Preface: Scaling the Ivory Tower vii Part I: Admissions 1 The Unjust University 3 Why It's Hard to Foster Inclusivity in a System Based on Exclusivity Part II: Orientation 2 The Education Factory 21 How We Got Our Current System and Why It's Such an Expensive, Inefficient Mess 3 Seating Arrangements 39 Why Limited Classroom Space Leads Rich Parents to Bribe Their Kids into College 4 Masters of None 53 Why We Standardize Our Teaching Even Though We Know Our Students Are Unique 5 The Noisy Classroom 71 What College Diplomas Signal--and the Resulting Distortions Part III: Instruction 6 Open Enrollment 89 Why--at Last--We Can Do Things Differently 7 The Digitally Powered Ivory Tower 103 How Digitization Is Creating Abundance in Access and Instruction 8 Getting Down to Business 135 Why Abundance in Access and Instruction Hasn't Changed Higher Education 9 Structural Disruption 151 Why Big Changes Are at Last on the Horizon for Higher Education 10 Hello, Google State 165 The New World of Credentialing and Skills-Based Hiring 11 Objections, Objections 181 Understanding and Moving Past Our Resistance to Change Part IV: Commencement 12 Rediscovering Our Mission 205 A Summation--and a Path Forward--for Educators Acknowledgments 217 Notes 219 Index 259
Preface: Scaling the Ivory Tower vii Part I: Admissions 1 The Unjust University 3 Why It's Hard to Foster Inclusivity in a System Based on Exclusivity Part II: Orientation 2 The Education Factory 21 How We Got Our Current System and Why It's Such an Expensive, Inefficient Mess 3 Seating Arrangements 39 Why Limited Classroom Space Leads Rich Parents to Bribe Their Kids into College 4 Masters of None 53 Why We Standardize Our Teaching Even Though We Know Our Students Are Unique 5 The Noisy Classroom 71 What College Diplomas Signal--and the Resulting Distortions Part III: Instruction 6 Open Enrollment 89 Why--at Last--We Can Do Things Differently 7 The Digitally Powered Ivory Tower 103 How Digitization Is Creating Abundance in Access and Instruction 8 Getting Down to Business 135 Why Abundance in Access and Instruction Hasn't Changed Higher Education 9 Structural Disruption 151 Why Big Changes Are at Last on the Horizon for Higher Education 10 Hello, Google State 165 The New World of Credentialing and Skills-Based Hiring 11 Objections, Objections 181 Understanding and Moving Past Our Resistance to Change Part IV: Commencement 12 Rediscovering Our Mission 205 A Summation--and a Path Forward--for Educators Acknowledgments 217 Notes 219 Index 259
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