Here's an undergraduate student at UBC articulating a vision for the future that I so thoroughly agree with that it is fills me with a sense of unbounded hope and encouragement.
Is the business model of the future one where the customer no longer pays? Already products in the digital marketplace are being given away free, yet companies are still making profits.
Here, excerpting from the conclusion to this volume, we consider how electronic portfolios provide a vehicle for a transition into the future of higher education.
Future generations of learners will no doubt look back at the global economic crisis of 2008-9 and reflect on which institutions were agile enough to make a difference by bringing the wisdom of their scholars together with the acumen of their technology officers and the ingenuity and determination of their university leaders.
"The dawn of uLearning: near-future directions for 21st century educators." The diagram above is a concept map of what is discussed in this thesis, and the paper is a good review of the literature.
The analysis of the potential benefits in post-secondary settings also includes considerations of the obstacles to institutional adoption and challenges to successful implementation.