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"It's a long process of aculturation that transitions students into the adult world." I agree with this 100% and was glad to read it. While I support online learning, this reason alone makes me believe that if the college campus was taken away, we would be doing those young students a disservice.

Good resource - Prof Altbach has been in the HE discussion game for a long time (week 1 readings included a paper he did for a UNESCO conf)

flipped his machine learning class in Spring 2012 using online lectures from the F2011 Stanford MOOC (an inclass "wrapper" around a MOOC - online discussion and grading with additional requirements from the onsite instructor, e.g., add'l readings, small group discussions, final project) "I now view MOOCs, and the assessment and discussion infrastructure that comes with them, as invaluable resources that I embrace and to which I add value. I, and I am guessing many others, are short steps away from full-blown customizations of individual courses and even entire curricula, drawing upon resources from around the world and contributing back to those resources."

Mr Shirky lets it all hang out. Good read.

Napster lost the battle but won the war - changing the story and disrupting the cost models; in higher ed our MP3 is the MOOC and our Napster is Udacity...

Napster did lose. What won was DRM-laden iTunes, then Amazon. What lesson will higher education draw from that?

a bit off the education subject but not really.