In March 2013, Bonnie Cain-Wood attended a session on
disillusion with college educations. Her notes, take aways and follow up
questions are below.
Session Brief: People are realizing the
financial burden of student loans and the struggle to find a job after
graduation. Meanwhile, their role models are both some of the most successful
people in business AND college dropouts — Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill
Gates, to name a few. We’re entering a new reality, where education and
opportunity are what you create. This means thousands upon thousands of people
are asking the same question, “Is a college degree really worth the money or
can I get the same information and training for free online and through other
mechanisms?” It’s a defining time for universities, students, graduates and
businesses. This session explored what this shift means and how both businesses
and education systems should react.
Take Aways:
·
Era of Innovation introduce new forms of
education.
·
Today we see an increase in self-education. Why:
1. We question the value of a
college degree.
2. Connectivity and Information
(ex: MOOC)
3. Human nature-we want to learn,
we are curious
Library Applications:
·
As an academic institution are we afraid of
the rise of the "autodidadic degree"? Should we be?
·
What do we do to give our students the
information literacy skills to be robust self-learners?
·
In our hiring, promotion, training, etc. what
can we do to identify, recognize and give credit for self-education?
If you would like to share your notes on conference sessions
relevant to the Library Future Series contact lib-pub@okstate.edu.
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