An article by the aptly named Zephyr Teachout in the Washington Post predicts that the same digital revolution disintegrating mass media will remake the college experience as well.
Teachout writes, “Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet. The business model that sustained private U.S. colleges cannot survive.” And…
“Just as the new model of news separated ‘the article’ from ‘the newspaper,’ the new model of college will separate ‘the class’ from ‘the college.’”
The digital revolution that gave every consumer a global platform for self-expression, will soon provide nearly everyone access to higher education at lower prices.
Greg Stielstra
