College disrupted
Subtitle: the great unbundling of higher education
By: Ryan Craig
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781137279699
Subjects: Higher education and state; Higher Education; Aims and objectives; Universities and colleges; Educational change
Description: For nearly two decades, pundits have been predicting the demise of higher education in the United States. Our colleges and universities will soon find themselves competing for students with universities from around the world. With the advent of massive open online courses ("MOOCS") over the past two years, predictions that higher education will be the next industry to undergo "disruption" have become more frequent and fervent. Currently a university's reputation relies heavily on the "four Rs" in which the most elite schools thrive--rankings, research, real estate, and rah! (i.e. sports). But for the majority of students who are not attending these elite institutions, the "four Rs" offer poor value for the expense of a college education. Craig sees the future of higher education in online degrees that unbundle course offerings to offer a true bottom line return for the majority of students in terms of graduation, employment, and wages. College Disrupted details the changes that American higher education will undergo, including the transformation from packaged courses and degrees to truly unbundled course offerings, along with those that it will not.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bundle of joy?; title: Crisis of affordability; title: Crisis of governance; title: Crisis of data; title: Finding wonderland; title: The great unbundling; title: Preparing for the great unbundling; title: America's next great export; title: Managing change; title: A tale of two cities?; title: American hustle; title: Humbling unbundling.