Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Coworking spaces team with universities to bridge the gap between classroom and practice
Online Collaboration: With tuition costs mounting, the national student loan burden growing and employers complaining about a lack of certain job skills, no one is really in love with the current university education system. But with frustration comes creativity, as initiatives of all sorts attempt to dream up a better way. Should we go back to an apprentice system? Is online learning the answer? How about re-imagining universities as coffee shops?
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I read this article 2 times and I still can't really understand what this "d.school@CoCo" thing is. I assumed that I wasn't just paying enough attention, but I'm starting to think that the idea is actually just very vague and strange and possibly just another instance in which people throw around important sounding phrases like "helping bring theory into contact" so that a really simple idea sounds groundbreaking.
Here's the deal: if you want to go to college to broaden your mind, go get a liberal arts education. If you want a specific career that requires university education, go to a good school for the program. If you want a job that just requires licensing or apprenticeship, don't waste your money on a college education you don't really want or need.
This does to some extent beg the question "if you are doing the same things at work and at school why would you not just go straight into the work force after high school?" Obviously going to CMU I am very biased because CMU is basically a trade school, but I feel like school should be like a test for the real world. It should be giving you the skills you need to do the things you are going to do afterwards, and opportunities to screw up in those areas if you want to. I think that education should be very focused and you should learn both over arching skills and skills that are very specific.
Also I completely agree with Pia, but I also find that the friends I have that went to liberal arts are in someways unhappy with their decisions because they feel as though they just screwed around for 2 years until they majored and once they did major they didn't have access to the classes they specifically wanted and couldn't go deep enough into their major.
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