{"id":1468,"date":"2013-09-09T20:33:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamlearner.net\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2013-09-09T20:35:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:35:21","slug":"1468","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/1468\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maze of Academic Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tFrom an article entitled Postsecondary Education in the Changing Learning and Living Landscapes, by Yusra Laila Visser, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abebooks.co.uk\/servlet\/SearchResults?an=visser&amp;bt.x=-396&amp;bt.y=-286&amp;sts=t&amp;tn=Learners+in+a+Changing+Learning+Landscape\">Learners in a Changing Learning Landscape<\/a> (eds Visser &amp; Visser-Valfrey):\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\t\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The crux of the issue faced by learners is that they cannot assume that mindlessly wandering through the maze of academic requirements for any postsecondary learning endeavour constitutes a sufficient level of engagement with learning. In this respect, the excessive focus of all levels of education on standards and formulaic fulfillment of academic requirements has done a tremendous disservice to the learner, the education system, and the broader society.<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n\tI agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article entitled Postsecondary Education in the Changing Learning and Living Landscapes, by Yusra Laila Visser, in Learners in a Changing Learning Landscape (eds Visser &amp; Visser-Valfrey): The crux of the issue faced by learners is that they cannot assume that mindlessly wandering through the maze of academic requirements for any postsecondary learning endeavour&#8230;<\/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":[188,83,190,189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468"}],"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=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}