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Friday, June 12, 2009
Future of learning lies online - Matt Culbertson, StatePress.com
The role of the information gatekeeper isn’t what it used to be. There’s a diminished role of authority regulating the flow of information and decided what content passes forward —and anyone can be a mass-communicating producer and consumer of content. Every industry and institution that functions as an information provider is facing more competition than ever before. In some ways, the same forces driving newspapers and more isolated cases of traditional media bankrupt threaten the university model.
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Perhaps it is time to reconsider the business models intead of trying to force feed a new regime and persepctive into them - just a thought.
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