{"id":33,"date":"2012-11-18T23:34:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T03:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/?p=33"},"modified":"2012-11-18T23:34:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T03:34:23","slug":"imagine-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Imagine That!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A provocative article by Clay Shirky (writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies) entitled\u00a0<em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/weblog\/2012\/11\/napster-udacity-and-the-academy\/\">Napster, Udacity, and the Academy<\/a> <\/em>makes parallels between the Music Industry and the Higher Education \u201cindustry\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting from the end of the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIn the academy, we lecture other people every day about learning from history. Now its our turn, and the risk is that we\u2019ll be the last to know that the world has changed, because we can\u2019t imagine\u2014really cannot imagine\u2014that story we tell ourselves about ourselves could start to fail. Even when it\u2019s true. Especially when it\u2019s true.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine that!<\/p>\n<p>[<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/weblog\/2012\/11\/napster-udacity-and-the-academy\/\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A provocative article by Clay Shirky (writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies) entitled\u00a0Napster, Udacity, and the Academy makes parallels between the Music Industry and the Higher Education \u201cindustry\u201d. Quoting from the end of the article: \u201cIn the academy, we lecture other people every day about learning from history. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2093,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}