{"id":2272,"date":"2009-06-25T16:09:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T16:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2009-06-25T16:09:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T16:09:49","slug":"the-edgeless-university-new-demos-pamphlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/06\/25\/the-edgeless-university-new-demos-pamphlet\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Edgeless University&#8217; &#8211; new Demos pamphlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British government-aligned think-tank Demos launched a new pamphlet on the 23rd, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.demos.co.uk\/files\/Edgeless_University_-_web.pdf?1245715615\">The Edgeless University : why higher education must embrace technology<\/a><\/em> (PDF link).  &#8216;Edgeless&#8217; here means the Mandelsonian policy idea that UK higher-education must cross borders, speak many languages and generally become less insular &mdash; willing to set up partnership campuses in Europe and beyond, &#8220;exploring new ways of accrediting learning&#8221;. Technology is touted as the way to press on toward that goal, it seems. All very well (unless it&#8217;s the dreaded Moodle), but where&#8217;s the money to do so, at a time when huge cuts to libraries and to &#8220;investment in the management and curatorship of vast amounts of data and knowledge&#8221; seem to be looming into view?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government-aligned think-tank Demos launched a new pamphlet on the 23rd, The Edgeless University : why higher education must &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/06\/25\/the-edgeless-university-new-demos-pamphlet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-and-think-tank-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}