{"id":23050,"date":"2012-09-03T15:33:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T15:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/notational-instead-of-trying-to-directly\/"},"modified":"2012-09-03T15:33:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T15:33:16","slug":"notational-instead-of-trying-to-directly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/notational-instead-of-trying-to-directly\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notational.tumblr.com\/post\/30780365127\/instead-of-trying-to-directly-challenge-american\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">notational<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cInstead of trying to directly challenge American colleges\u2014a daunting proposition, given the political power and public subsidies they possess\u2014the new breed of tech start-ups will likely start by working in the unregulated private sector, where they\u2019ll build what amounts to a parallel higher education universe. A few weeks after returning from the West Coast, I watched Eren Bali spend two hours in a Washington, D.C.-area conference room listening to government officials, regulators, and representatives of for-profit higher education corporations discuss the morass of accreditation rules and federal regulations that make it hard for entrepreneurs to compete directly with traditional schools. Finally, Bali raised his hand and politely said, in effect, I don\u2019t understand why any of this matters. I can go online right now and get everything I need to learn\u2014courses, textbooks, videos, other students to study with\u2014for free. And if I need to know what someone else has learned, I can look at their Linked-In profile or their blog to find out. At a certain point, probably before this decade is out, that parallel universe will reach a point of sophistication and credibility where the degrees\u2014or whatever new word is invented to mean \u201cevidence of your skills and knowledge\u201d\u2014it grants are taken seriously by employers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 <\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/magazine\/septemberoctober_2012\/features\/_its_three_oclock_in039373.php?page=all\">The Siege of Academe<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Kevin Carey on breaching the walls of higher education\u00a0 (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>i\u2019m thinking they will be called \u201cresumes\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bonesandroots.tumblr.com\/\">bonesandroots<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And portfolios, and curriculum vitae (a term already used in spanish speaking countries to capture what we think of as resumes)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>notational: \u201cInstead of trying to directly challenge American colleges\u2014a daunting proposition, given the political power and public subsidies they possess\u2014the new breed of tech start-ups will likely start by working in the unregulated private sector, where they\u2019ll build what amounts to a parallel higher education universe. A few weeks after returning from the West Coast, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5ZM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23050","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=23050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}