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Routine is a great deadener of attention.

When you follow the same routines at home, folding the laundry or doing the dishes, your mind goes on automatic pilot.

same generic suite of teaching activities: listen to a lecture, take notes, ask some questions, talk in groups.

With the explosion of online learning, a disruptive innovation, there has been significant attention paid to the likely unbundling of higher education (see Michael Staton’s AEI piece and this University Ventures Fund piece, for example). We’ve written about unbundling ourselves. In every industry, the early successful products and services often have an interdependent architecture—meaning that they tend to be proprietary and bundled. The reason for this is that when a technology is immature, in order to make the products reliable or powerful enough so that they will gain traction, an entity has to wrap its hands around the whole system architecture so that it can wring out every ounce of performance.

Students are referred to as “customers.”

t deploys data analytics for everything from anticipating future demand to figuring out which students are most likely to stumble.

“Public institutions will not see increasing state funding and private colleges will not see ever-rising tuition.”

more of online “innovations” like competency-based education.

reauthorization of the Higher Education Act might shake out.

"moving from episodic to continuous learning -- getting a degree doesn't end your education any more and everyone will have to continue to learn

moving away from having faculty that were the conveyers of content to -- now that there's so much more information available -- becoming more curators of the content, of helping guide all the sources,

some thought that the emphasis on degrees may be reduced as other kinds of assessments come into play,