{"id":3635,"date":"2009-12-01T14:41:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T21:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2012-06-13T17:18:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T17:18:31","slug":"universities-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/universities-in-the-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities in the digital age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Improving university education is one of the cheapest and simplest things that we could do to improve the U.S. economy&#8217;s long-term prospects. The current system, in light of both the promise and distractions of modern technology, is almost laughably poorly designed. &#8211; <a href='http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/teaching\/universities-and-economic-growth'>Philip Greenspun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some good ideas, including changing grading, stop lecturing, open offices for students, and teaching the full work process (from vague request to refined and documented solution).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Improving university education is one of the cheapest and simplest things that we could do to improve the U.S. economy&#8217;s long-term prospects. The current system, in light of both the promise and distractions of modern technology, is almost laughably poorly designed. &#8211; Philip Greenspun. Some good ideas, including changing grading, stop lecturing, open offices for&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/universities-in-the-digital-age\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-2","category-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-WD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5011,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions\/5011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}