{"id":111,"date":"2012-06-26T19:54:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T19:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/?p=111"},"modified":"2012-07-05T15:14:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T15:14:19","slug":"interview-with-bill-gates-on-future-of-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"Interview With Bill Gates On Future of Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates never finished college, but he is one of the single most powerful figures shaping higher education today. That influence comes through the Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation, perhaps the world&#8217;s richest philanthropy, which he co-chairs and which has made education one of its key missions. <a href=\" http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/A-Conversation-With-Bill-Gates\/132591\/\">I sat down with him<\/a> to talk about his vision for how colleges can be transformed through technology. The interview was picked up by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com\/technology\/technolog\/gates-higher-education-has-not-been-substantially-changed-internet-849975\">MSNBC&#8217;s Web site<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/andrew-benton\/whither-higher-education_b_1644657.html\">The Huffington Post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/LRL0eh\">Marketplace&#8217;s Mid-Day Update<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/06\/26\/1946211\/bill-gates-says-tablets-arent-much-help-in-education?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29\">Slashdot<\/a>, among others. <\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f8\/1399136188\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=1706796413001&#038;playerId=1399136188&#038;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https:\/\/console.brightcove.com\/services\/amfgateway&#038;servicesURL=http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services&#038;cdnURL=http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com&#038;domain=embed&#038;autoStart=false&#038;\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates never finished college, but he is one of the single most powerful figures shaping higher education today. That influence comes through the Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation, perhaps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}