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    DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
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    DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education

    By Anya Kamenetz

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    The price of college tuition has increased more than any other major good or service for the last twenty years. Nine out of ten American high school seniors aspire to go to college, yet the United States has fallen from world leader to only the tenth most educated nation. Almost half of college students don't graduate; those who do have unprecedented levels of federal and private student loan debt, which constitutes a credit bubble similar to the mortgage crisis.

    The system particularly fails the first-generation, the low-income, and students of color who predominate in coming generations. What we need to know is changing more quickly than ever, and a rising tide of information threatens to swamp knowledge and wisdom. America cannot regain its economic and cultural leadership with an increasingly ignorant population. Our choice is clear: Radically change the way higher education is delivered, or resign ourselves to never having enough of it.

    The roots of the words "university" and "college" both mean community. In the age of constant connectedness and social media, it's time for the monolithic, millennium-old, ivy-covered walls to undergo a phase change into something much lighter, more permeable, and fluid.

    The future lies in personal learning networks and paths, learning that blends experiential and digital approaches, and free and open-source educational models. Increasingly, you will decide what, when, where, and with whom you want to learn, and you will learn by doing. The university is the cathedral of modernity and rationality, and with our whole civilization in crisis, we are poised on the brink of Reformation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChelsea Green Publishing
    Release dateApr 1, 2010
    ISBN9781603582766
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    DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
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    Anya Kamenetz

    Anya Kamenetz is a senior writer at Fast Company Magazine, where she writes the column Life in Beta, and the author of two books, Generation Debt (Riverhead, 2006), which dealt with generational economics and politics including student loan policy, and DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, (Chelsea Green, 2010) which investigated the roots of the cost, access, and quality crises in higher education as well as innovations in technology and social media to address these crises. She was named a 2010 Game Changer in Education by the Huffington Post, received 2009 and 2010 National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing by the Village Voice in 2005. She travels and speaks at campuses across the country, and often gives comments on NPR, CNN and other news networks.

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    • 2/5
      This guy is a mixed bag with no clear thesis. The appendix in the back is a good cheat sheet for open / free academic resources, but in a strange gesture (telling of the book's contradictions) it lists FAFSA as a resource after railing about how student loan bloat is both driving up the cost of the college and dragging people into debt. A good primer on college costs, loan debt, and efforts to change the system (mostly via the internets) but it could have been better organized.
    • 3/5
      A sharp-tongued look at higher education that pulls no punches. It's like someone shouting to the crowds; "Look, the emperor has no clothes!" Despite the sarcastic and bleak picture the book paints however, underlying each chapter and the book as a whole, there is a message of hope and an inspiration to take action. An excellent read for anyone involved in higher education from the prospective student, to the tenured professor.
    • 2/5
      In first section of the book, Kamenetz examines the social-structural and economic issues in higher education which drive costs up and graduation down. This section works reasonably well and should give people pause. Kamenetz did a fair job of convincing me that current methods cannot merely be scaled up to educate substantially more students; new players and approaches will be necessary (possibly including new philosophies about the uses of education and credentials).The second section, in which Kamenetz tours the various technological means for delivering information, isn't as successful. It reads like a mere catalog of various options, not critically examining any of them. Everything is presented as "potentially revolutionary"; options aren't even compared to each other, let alone existing pedagogical strategies. It devolves into a gee-whiz tour, more in the style of the Travel and Leisure section of a newspaper than a work of investigation or analysis.