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# Higher Education in the Digital Age (The William G. Bowen Series) Hardcover – April 7, 2013

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great insights into yesterday, murky vision of tomorrow
*by J***S on September 20, 2017*

Part One -- the problems -- is spot on, Part Two -- the techie solutions -- not so much. The relatively prosaic development of MOOCs -- e-learning at enormous scale -- has been interesting but not all that important. MOOCs gave administrators and op-ed writers like Bowen and Thomas Friedman plenty of popular apocalyptic notions, but it seems the real advances have yet to be made in less glitzy areas like K-12 preparation, pedagogy, curriculum, governance and social integration. Education is evolving from a public good to a consumption good, a semi-private media and entertainment landscape of human capital enhancement, micro-credentialing and personal fulfillment.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Technology in higher education is not to replace but enhance success
*by J***E on March 8, 2014*

At age 79, William Bowen, former president of Princeton University and the Mellon Foundation, was selected as a lecturer for the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford University. His book, Higher Education in the Digital Age, is based on those two lectures that took place in 2012 along with responses from highly esteemed professionals in the field of higher as well as Bowen’s own commentary to those responses. In the first chapter, Costs and Productivity in Higher Education, Bowen summarizes the issue of affordability and the rising costs of college. Bowen then discusses solutions in the form of online platforms as part of his second lecture entitled Prospects for an Online Fix. He offers his critique and recommendations based upon his vast knowledge and experience while humbly admitting that he is doing his best to keep up with the changes that are occurring at a staggering pace.Bowen’s perspective is rare and refreshing in that he acknowledges the significance of the practical necessities such as cost and graduation rates but not at the expense of devaluing the intangible purposes of character building and citizenship fostered through higher education. He frames this in the concept of the productivity quotient whereas the way to increase productivity is through lowering costs and increasing student learning via completion rates and time to complete degree. Although he makes an exception that this formula is not entirely measurable as student learning cannot only be reduced to those outcomes. Bowen argues, and Howard Gardner supports in his response, that the residential learning community, “minds rubbing minds,” eyeball to eyeball communication, are vital and powerful and no online platform should solely replace these pedagogies. Yet technology has evolved to become a resource that higher education must embrace. Bowen suggests that a portfolio approach is best as it provides a comprehensive educational experience. In order for this to be successful, the faculty must be involved and, ideally, there would be collaboration between well respected schools with a demonstrated capacity to execute initiatives.Bowen understands that restoring the public’s trust in colleges and universities is paramount to the continued success of American higher education. He promotes technology as a solution to this issue because it has the potential to both improve the success of college students while decreasing costs. One hesitation Bowen raises is that there is a lack of empirical evidence to support online platforms improve learning outcomes. Bowen stresses the need for “a willingness to question established norms including models of decision making,” but only done so in conjunction with well performed assessments. These cost savings initiatives must be done in way that that are visible to the public and help to restore the faith that colleges and universities are making efforts for change.Throughout the book Bowen recognizes the discrepancies that exist between institutions that are financially secure and the larger number of other schools that do not have the money, resources or people to make these initiatives possible. Technology platforms such as MOOCs could possibly reduce or eliminate some of these discrepancies and provide an opportunity for better matching of students to colleges and universities based on competencies instead of financial means. These changes could have a positive effect on time to completion and college completion rates. But Bowen also identifies that there is a stewardship that should be engrained with prestigious institutions so that their advances truly do benefit the greater good of not only higher education but society at large. Examples such as Stanford’s Class2Go and MIT’s Open Office program demonstrate such stewardship that contributes greatly to our society, opening access and once again, advancing our standing as a world leader in higher education.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A thorough discussion of online education
*by R***N on October 29, 2013*

An established higher education system is in a transformation, new technologies are moving all or part of the classroom online. This book talks about related issues and what we should expect to see in the near future.

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