{"115131":{"#nid":"115131","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Baker on the Future of Universities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If you\u2019ve got Amazon as an analogue for these massively open courses, there is still a model where people actually go into bookstores because sometimes they want to touch, or they like hanging out, or there\u2019s other value offered by that,\u0022 said \u003Cstrong\u003EPaul M.A. Baker\u003C\/strong\u003E, Adjunct Professor with the School of Public Policy and the Associate Director of the Center for 21st Century Universities.\u0026nbsp;\u0022What it means is that the university needs to rethink what it\u2019s doing, how it\u2019s doing it. And how it innovates in a way of surviving in the face of this. If I can do the Amazon equivalent of this open course, why should I come here? Well, maybe you shouldn\u2019t. And that\u2019s a client that is lost.\u0022 \u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/could-many-universities-follow-borders-bookstores-into-oblivion\/35711\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThe Chronicle of Higher Education\u003C\/a\u003E - March 7, 2012\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2012-03-08 11:11:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:26","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Tianyu Wang","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/could-many-universities-follow-borders-bookstores-into-oblivion\/35711","dateline":{"date":"2012-03-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-03-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"14381","name":"center for 21st century universities"},{"id":"10027","name":"Paul Baker"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}