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The solution is to stop orienting our society around institutional learning. We have a global information network. We need to orient society around individual l
by douglaswlance 8y ago
The solution is to stop orienting our society around institutional learning. We have a global information network. We need to orient society around individual learning, not academia.
Kids living at home and taking (mostly) pre-programmed online courses should be the norm. It is vastly cheaper, and can deliver more consistently better results.
- mkirklions 8y agoI like this mentality, but there needs to be education around fact finding and logic. (Formerly the scientific method, but I think that got hijacked with PhD politics) Me and my brother are building a dishwasher but he seems to jump into solutions rather than determining the necessary inputs and equations to prove them outputs will meet our design specifications. And my brother is an engineer. In a few weeks/months I feel like I can learn any subject with enough googling and hard work. However, without this ultra critical mindset, I can imagine a child would get lost among too much information.
- randomdata 8y ago> but there needs to be education around fact finding and logic. I picked up that mentality while being involved with the family farm as a young child. The elementary and secondary systems came of age when the vast majority of the population also had significant involvement in agriculture. One would imagine that kind of thinking would be pushed at those early school levels, long before one reaches the typical post-secondary age, but you are suggesting that is not the case. It may have been assumed that one would already pick that up at home given the circumstances of the time and we haven't looked back since? Has college become the replacement for agrarian exposure in our modern urbanized society?
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoThe problem is credentials. If you have a college degree in X, you can prove it to me. If you lived at home and took pre-programmed online courses, I need a way of determining whether you actually know what those courses should have taught you. Of course, a college degree doesn't really tell me that, either. If you can solve this problem, you could make online education superior to college education (at least in terms of value to an employer).
- dragonwriter 8y ago> The problem is credentials. If you have a college degree in X, you can prove it to me. If you lived at home and took pre-programmed online courses, I need a way of determining whether you actually know what those courses should have taught you. There is already an approach that addresses this: competency-based degree programs.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoAre there competency-based degree programs that grant a degree that is generally recognized (by employers and/or grad schools)?
- dragonwriter 8y agoIn that most employers (and grad schools) generally recognize degrees from accredited institutions, yes. Obviously, there aren't any with the prestige of top traditional schools.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoCould you name a few of these accredited competency-based institutions?
- dragonwriter 8y agoHere's a few, there are more: Western Governors University Brandman University MyPath Southern New Hampshire University College for America
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoThanks!
- douglaswlance 8y agoAll you would need is a verified testing center program. There are more libraries in the USA than McDonalds. Turn them into testing centers.