Is the Traditional University a Dinosaur?
Hey there my online degree dorm buddies.
Let’s look at possible vision of the future…
…The year is 2020.
And brick and mortor Universities no longer exist.
Gone are the pricey textbooks, 200 class lectures, huge monolithic libraries..
Sound crazy? I don’t think so.
David Wiley, a professor at Brigham Young University, recently claimed that the modern university “will be irrelevant by 2020.”
And, at least in theory, all the informational content offered at a university could be acquired in another form, maybe even for free. Of course, this requires a tremendous amount of time and dedication on the part of the self-taught student.
The problem right now is that the self-taught student is rare. And education itself isn’t just informational content. Teachers and Colleges offer much more than the downloading of knowledge into students’ brains (or Ipods… 
) William Yeats once said “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
But it could definitely happen, given the right conditions. And technology.
And technology will be created, and universites will have to evolve to adapt and accomodate the information age. Things like tenure and other pre-historic policies will have to change.
And hopefully one day, online degree will produce the same quality and expertise as Stanford or MIT. But even that will take more time. but I beleive it will happen. It should happen, and it can happen.
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