The Campus Tsunami — from The New York Times by David Brooks
Excerpts:
But, over the past few months, something has changed.The elite, pace-setting universities have embraced the Internet. Not long ago, online courses were interesting experiments. Now online activity is at the core of how these schools envision their futures.
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What happened to the newspaper and magazine business is about to happen to higher education: a rescrambling around the Web.
From DSC:
What David Brooks said in this last bolded sentence (above) is what I have been saying, but in a slightly different way:
Other industries have been up to bat, and the Internet was pitching. Higher education used to be on deck. But now, higher education is at bat.