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4 Radical Ideas for Reinventing College, Drawn From Stanford Research

"What if students declare missions, not majors?

Students don’t need information, they need to learn how to process and use it.

Technology and data are reshaping every aspect of our jobs, at an astonishing speed. Yet our higher education system still clings to a system created about 800 years ago: a teacher, in front of a classroom full of students, giving a lecture.

This dichotomy is at the heart of a current national debate over the value and cost of higher education, and how that education is delivered. At issue is how institutions long wedded to a rigid teacher-classroom format can better prepare students to become what Sarah Stein Greenberg of the Stanford University d.School calls "daring, creative, and resilient problem solvers."

By Margaret Rhodes

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/4-smart-proposals-reinventing-college-stanfords-design-school/

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