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Europe in the world: Higher education developments across the globe
ACA Annual Conference 2014
The end of the traditional university? MOOCs and open content
William Lawton The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education
‘The “hype cycle” of MOOCs and other big ideas’, Times Higher Education, 9 January 2014.
We are here
Dominant university model unviable in most cases. 15-20 independent, global brands; the rest to play for the silver medal. Ernst & Young (Australia), 2012
Half of the 4,500 colleges and universities in the US
will cease to exist.
‘The End of the University as We Know It’, The American Interest,
Jan 2013
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Trouble ahead?
The models of higher education in the 20th
century are broken….
The traditional multipurpose university has had its day.