{"id":1056,"date":"2012-11-28T13:46:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T13:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamlearner.net\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2012-11-28T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:49:51","slug":"education-online-debate-not-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/education-online-debate-not-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Educa ‘Online’ Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting clash of views taking place in a debate at Educa Online<\/a> tomorrow (Thursday 29 November, 2012).<\/p>\n

In the red corner, Jef Staes, author of My Organisation is a Jungle<\/a>, and Donald Clark, of the UK’s University for Industry<\/a>, will lead an assault on diplomas and degrees, arguing they are becoming redundant. As Staes argues, the educational structure was:<\/p>\n

….created in an era of information scarcity. Knowledge was the privilege of insiders, the rich, the smart, the powerful. This knowledge reinforced their status within society and within this structure. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nowadays, thanks to the Internet and advances in technology, information is becoming democratised and,<\/p>\n

….these foundations are slowly crumbling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the blue corner we have Sue Martin, Global Certification Director<\/a>, SAP Education, and Kirstie Donnelly, of UK City & Guilds<\/a>. Sue Martin argues:<\/p>\n

….the importance of sound and reliable competency benchmarks for industry cannot be emphasised enough. A ban on diplomas and degrees would eliminate an important and tangible deliverable of our education system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have to say I like a quote from Staes:<\/p>\n

….for people without passion, information has no value….everyone is born with different passions and talents, but the way our education system is organised results in our current generation of sheep.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a debate I would like to hear and see. Pity there seems to be no plans to stream it to a wider audience. Educa online<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting clash of views taking place in a debate at Educa Online tomorrow (Thursday 29 November, 2012). In the red corner, Jef Staes, author of My Organisation is a Jungle, and Donald Clark, of the UK’s University for Industry, will lead an assault on diplomas and degrees, arguing they are becoming redundant. As…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,8],"tags":[84,80,81,82,79,20,83,27,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}