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News: Disruption, Delivery and Degrees - Inside Higher Ed - 4 views

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  • Though those circumstances have "rendered higher education impossible to disrupt in the past," the situation is changing, the authors write. Policy makers are demanding that they enroll and successfully educate many more students at a time when their "economic model is already broken" -- with public pressure mounting against increasing tuitions and their ability to use "government dollars, ... endowments and gifts ... to paper over cost increases" waning, Horn said.
  • The key question the authors pose is whether traditional institutions can adapt themselves enough to fill this role or "whether community colleges, for-profit universities and other entrant organizations aggressively using online learning will do it instead -- and ultimately grow to replace many of today's traditional institutions."
  • Changing will not be easy for, say, Harvard and the University of Texas; just ask General Motors and America's steel companies, the authors suggest. Altering an institution's educational model (by delivering courses only online, for instance) does not in and of itself transform an institution unless new business models are embraced, too, that allow for lower prices and the shedding of research and other functions that aren't central to teaching and learning.
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  • Public universities will find it difficult to change, so state systems are more likely to take steps like Indiana's has in turning to Western Governors University to fill the online learning gap in its offerings, the authors write. And if private nonprofit institutions "are able to navigate this disruptive transition," they say, "they will have to do so by creating autonomous business units."
  • It continues: "Both the not-for-profit and for-profit incumbents have been successful so far at warding off policies that seek to regulate quality.... [T]he goal of policy should be to unleash innovation by setting the conditions for good actors that improve access, quality, and value -- be they for-profit, nonprofit, or public -- to succeed. And if those institutions deliver, the landscape will shift over time, as it has in every other highly regulated market that was disrupted."
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