{"id":38475,"date":"2013-03-20T13:26:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=38475"},"modified":"2013-03-20T15:58:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T19:58:51","slug":"the-future-of-higher-ed-according-to-richard-demillo-some-thoughtsperspectives-worth-reflecting-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/03\/20\/the-future-of-higher-ed-according-to-richard-demillo-some-thoughtsperspectives-worth-reflecting-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of higher ed according to Richard DeMillo; some thoughts\/perspectives worth reflecting on"},"content":{"rendered":"
Traditional institutions will close, number of colleges and universities will rise (audio and transcript)<\/strong><\/a> — from evoLLLution.com (where LLL stands for lifelong learning) by Richard DeMillo | Director of the Center for 21st Century Universities, Georgia Institute of Technology<\/div>\n
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Well, for me, it always boils down to value. People misunderstand this as assigning value based on salaries or employability, but I mean value in the larger sense. You have to have a reason to ask students to pay more than the marginal costs of delivering education. And with all these revolutions in technology for course delivery, that marginal cost is going to zero very, very quickly [think journalism<\/em>].<\/span> So, every institution that\u2019s going to survive, I think, over the next 50 years, is going to have to make that case. Why is it that tuition at this institution is justified?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The interesting thing about this is it\u2019s going to be accelerated because the old bureaucracies, the old institutional models\u2026 are crumbling. At least, their boundaries are crumbling. Let me tell you what I mean by that.<\/span><\/p>\n

The accrediting agencies, which I think traditionally have had \u2014 at least for the last 120 years or so\u2014an institutional focus, are now shifting their focus to students;<\/strong> to competencies, to demonstrations of what students know. And that really starts to cut against institutional entitlement.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think the conclusion of all this is that, as it becomes harder and harder for\u2026 a \u201cMe-Too Institution\u201d to argue for a marginal increase in price, the amount of money that those institutions are going to have available to them to spend on anything but core mission for students is also going to go to zero. So, this is kind of a virtuous cycle; \u2026 institutions that are unable to make the value proposition will find themselves more and more strapped for discretionary funds in order to move themselves into a different space. And that\u2019s an ending that\u2019s not very good for most institutions.<\/p>\n

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