Saturday, November 13, 2010

The Future of Colleges & Universities: Blueprint for a Revolution (DaVinci Institute )

As the disruptive forces of the Internet bear down on colleges and universities, everyone is beginning to feel the leading winds of this impending storm, but few have a clear view of the changes to come. Newspapers, travel agencies, yellow pages, and record labels are all industries that have been greatly affected by the Internet, and each foretell a different version of what may lie ahead.

College 2.0 will witness a massive peeling apart process. Learning will become separated from the classroom. Courses will be created organically and formed around an on-demand, any-time, any-place delivery models. Professors will declare their independence and work for multiple institutions rather than just one specific college. Accreditation will shift from the Institution to the course and to the individual. And textbooks, the ink-on-paper version that we know today, will all but disappear.

Read Futurist Thomas Frey's paper at

http://www.davinciinstitute.com/papers/the-future-of-colleges-universities-blueprint-for-a-revolution/

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