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Higher education institutions are poised for a massive shake-up, not unlike what tech companies experienced in the 1980s during the rise of the PC, said EDUCAUSE’s first general session speaker.
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“Disruption is always a great opportunity before it becomes a threat,” he said.
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“In the future, I don’t think universities themselves will be nearly as prominent as they have been in the past,” he said.
Also see:
- EDUCAUSE 2014: Has the disruption begun?
- Michael B. Horn on Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education: How online competency based learning is changing the higher education landscape — from lambdasolutions.net by