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From DSC:<\/span><\/em> I’ve watched as the former power brokers throughout many other industries reluctantly got out of the dugout, nervously began their warm up on deck, and then timidly moved up to bat as well. They were trying to cling to the status quo. Which didn’t work.\u00a0 We’ve all seen the results.\u00a0 There are new power brokers in those industries now.\u00a0 (Which is I why I assert that there is danger in the status quo — our organizations need to always be at the work of reinventing ourselves.) …<\/span><\/p>\n If I had to pick the top 2 forces driving change throughout the higher education landscape, I would have to say the cost of obtaining a degree and technology-enabled innovation<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n …<\/p>\n Control is an illusion; people will find a way.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The items below reinforced my perspectives when I saw them this morning.\u00a0 They inspired me to create the above graphic, something I’ve been meaning to do for quite some time now.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n Our thesis with xEducation is that the internet is happening to higher education and that successful universities of the future will be those that find ways to generate value for its many stakeholders that go beyond content provision and teaching. What exactly that value proposition is remains unclear. On the one hand, content and (recorded) lectures can easily be shared with limited costs. The internet scales content exceptionally well. The human, social, processes of learning don\u2019t scale. Research doesn\u2019t scale (yet). Regional and national economic value generation doesn\u2019t scale. In these spaces where scalability does not work well, universities will likely find their new roles in society. Over the next six months, we\u2019ll explore and test this thesis and place the discussion of higher education reform on a firmer foundation than the latest tool and popular hype.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From DSC: My way of thinking about what’s happening to higher education these days borrows from the sport of baseball:\u00a0 Higher education used to be on deck; but now, we’re at bat. 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\nMy way of thinking about what’s happening to higher education these days borrows from the sport of baseball:<\/span>\u00a0 Higher education used to be on deck; but now, we’re at bat.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n
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\n\u201cHow did you go bankrupt?\u201d
\n\u201cTwo ways. Gradually, then suddenly.\u201d
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