{"id":18156,"date":"2014-02-01T15:02:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T15:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-only-thing-that-is-lacking-from-this-almost\/"},"modified":"2014-02-01T15:02:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T15:02:49","slug":"the-only-thing-that-is-lacking-from-this-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-only-thing-that-is-lacking-from-this-almost\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The only thing that is lacking from this almost free solution is what the higher education system has a monopoly on. A credential. An unbundled educational credential that people could use to get a better job would turn low or no cost higher ed into a reality nearly overnight and save us trillions in economic damage. It would turn education into a just in time product, something you engage with whenever you need it, wherever you need it.<br \/>\nHowever, there would be a cost. Wrenching change as technological innovation eliminates nearly every job in higher ed except those in the elite Universities.<br \/>\nLike the change in store for health care, banking, and other protected sectors, this change is inevitable. We can either mitigate the descent or suffer the effects of a sudden collapse of the system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.homefreeamerica.us\/resistance-futile-unbundled-free-higher-ed-inevitable\/\">Resistance is Futile \u2014 Unbundled, Free Higher Ed is Inevitable<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/azspot.net\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">azspot<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing that is lacking from this almost free solution is what the higher education system has a monopoly on. A credential. An unbundled educational credential that people could use to get a better job would turn low or no cost higher ed into a reality nearly overnight and save us trillions in economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4IQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}