Comments on: Build the Higher Ed Agenda with Us … http://www.nebhe.org/thejournal/build-the-higher-ed-agenda-with-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=build-the-higher-ed-agenda-with-us NEBHE Wed, 11 Sep 2013 02:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: George McCully http://www.nebhe.org/thejournal/build-the-higher-ed-agenda-with-us/comment-page-1/#comment-89207 George McCully Wed, 23 May 2012 11:33:00 +0000 http://www.nebhe.org/?post_type=thejournal&p=12801#comment-89207 You must add to your agenda the tsunami of technological transformation that is about to overtake higher education, in which leading universities (H'vd, MIT, Stanford, U. Chicago, Michigan, Pennsylvania, etc.) are putting their courses on the Internet, freely accessible, with certifications for successful completion by students worldwide (160,000 students signed up for the first MIT course). H'vd and MIT are investing $60 million over the next several years in their joint venture. Asked what is their business model, the two provosts laughed—there are so many income streams in this, and it will happen so rapidly with such unforeseeable ramifications, that they feel no need for business models yet. Second- and third-tier businesses are already being developed to harness the certification system to systematize job markets—identifying the most skilled, certified, accredited, employees by grazing off certification scores.

NEBHE should play a leadership role in promoting and coordinating institutional inquiries into how they can possibly change their business models fast enough to take advantage of, and not be buried by, the emerging system. This is no joke—it is an oncoming crisis for higher ed.

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