Originally Held: April 28, 2015
When Stanford President John Hennessey declared in 2013 that “a tsunami is coming,” he was referring to the impact of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on higher education. Now that MOOC-hysteria has died down, increasing rhetoric indicates that competency-based education (CBE) is seen by many as the new silver bullet. Still, there are many opinions to counter-balance claims the sky is falling, such as the recent Chronicle of Higher Education article titled “The End of College? Not So Fast” by Donald Heller, Dean of the College of Education at Michigan State University.
What is really going on in higher education, and how do we make sense of it all?
In this COIL Conversation, Barbara Bichelmeyer provides a brief history of higher education to explain how we came to have the infrastructure in which we currently labor. At just the moment in history when this model is straining from its own weight, a complex array of factors have converged to pressure the university as we know it to re-examine mission and reign in operations. We explore these inter-related factors, which include the shifting demographics of university students, shrinking revenue sources, calls for greater accountability, and the impact of the Internet. We discuss the impact each of these factors is having on the institution of higher education, with a particular focus on the Internet. Ultimately, we consider what leverage points will be key to responding to these disruptions in order to move successfully into the new reality of higher education.
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