I think the most important point of the article is that an unbundling of professors from universities might happen.
Some online education platform could very well buy out some great professors or better yet...identify the newcomers and get them on board.
Research and teaching is still somewhat tightly coupled so I'm curious to see when/if some of the online course providers will opt to sponsor or create their own open access type journals.
For business and IT, I think the market for continued learning is currently more attractive than the typical university market. I'd like to rent a Porter for my company to update them on interesting topics 3x a year.
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I think the most important point of the article is that an unbundling of professors from universities might happen.
Some online education platform could very well buy out some great professors or better yet...identify the newcomers and get them on board.
Research and teaching is still somewhat tightly coupled so I'm curious to see when/if some of the online course providers will opt to sponsor or create their own open access type journals.
For business and IT, I think the market for continued learning is currently more attractive than the typical university market. I'd like to rent a Porter for my company to update them on interesting topics 3x a year.
Sort of like Netflix getting into original content a la Kevin Spacey and House of Cards. Brilliant.