Artisanal Education

“If it is indeed time to ‘get big or get out’ — or, better put, “get online or get an identity”—then I’m for the artisanal, the local, the educational equivalent of farmer’s markets. The irony is that while most professors embrace the ideal embodied in farmer’s markets, they have supported the evisceration of local institutional educational identity. It’s time to insist not only on locally grown food, but on local knowledge. I’d rather make and share my own beer than encourage my students to guzzle Budweiser.”

Patrick J Deneen "We're All to Blame for MOOCs," The Chronicle  - http://bit.ly/12tceG3