NYTimes: What You (Really) Need to Know

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/education/edlife/the-21st-century-education.html

1. Education will be more about how to process and use information and less about imparting it.
2. Tasks will be carried out with far more collaboration.
3. faculty members would be freed up and materials would be improved, as competition drove up textbook/e-book quality
4. “Active learning classrooms” — which cluster students at tables, with furniture that can be rearranged and integrated technology.
5. The educational experience breed cosmopolitanism — that students have international experiences
6. Courses of study will place much more emphasis on the analysis of data

NYRB: Our Universities: Why Are They Failing?

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/nov/24/our-universities-why-are-they-failing/

also:  http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/what-is-college-for/

NPR: Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/01/144550920/physicists-seek-to-lose-the-lecture-as-teaching-tool


"The classes only seem to be really working for about 10 percent of the students," Arizona State's Hestenes says. "And I maintain, I think all the evidence indicates, that these 10 percent are the students that would learn it even without the instructor. They essentially learn it on their own."