All Answers: Re: [pakgrid] How the Higher Ed community needs to adapt, and quickly [1 Attachment]

Wednesday 28 November 2012

Re: [pakgrid] How the Higher Ed community needs to adapt, and quickly [1 Attachment]

[Attachment(s) from Qasim Sheikh included below]

According to attached document (page 12) US will be short of 3 million college graduates by 2018. With MOOC paradigm our youth is sitting on significant opportunities.

With Regards
Qasim
pk.linkedin.com/pub/qasim-sheikh/0/250/712
+923008540838 (mob)

From: Shiraz Bashir <shirazbashir@gmail.com>
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [pakgrid] How the Higher Ed community needs to adapt, and quickly

Bill Gates on Education.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXnvzidCYkg

-Shiraz

-Shiraz

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Affan S <affan.syed.usc@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all,
Since the start of the coursera and then the Udacity experiment, I have been extremely vocal at my institution (FAST-NU) to consider how this new paradigm on MOOC's will affect us. Here is an amazing article that is making the case that we might be like the newspaper industry that new that the digital age was coming but was lazy not to adapt in time and caused several great papers to collapse.

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2012/11/napster-udacity-and-the-academy/

My favorite quote from the article is "First, the people running the old system don't notice the change. When they do, they assume it's minor. Then that it's a niche. Then a fad. And by the time they understand that the world has actually changed, they've squandered most of the time they had to adapt."

So true, and we (the people in higher education) need to be able to adapt to this vision and brainstorm solutions. Lets not play catch-the-west here, for once we are at an even keel with them and can ourselves generate a new paradigm.

Affan

http://www.isb.nu.edu.pk/affan/