Thursday, December 30, 2010

Linked In or Reputation Based Networks Could Replace Accreditation and Degrees

The debate video below has some helpful points on self learning at the college level. It is interesting that accreditation and degrees could also be replaced with LinkedIn Profiles and other relationship based networks. The idea of peer based open transparent accreditation is simply proving what you know with a portfolio and references. The accreditation portion of the video begins at 39:40. The lady speaking is Anya Kamenetz who wrote the book titled, "DYI U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education." Neither of the speakers are Christians, the second speaker is defending the tradiational university model.







How Should the University Evolve?, part 1 of 2 from BLSCI on Vimeo.