Nathan Harding's article in The American Interest is of major importance when we try to visualize higher eduction in the future.
n fifty
years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly 4,500 colleges and
universities now operating in the United States will have ceased to
exist. The technology driving this change is already at work, and
nothing can stop it. The future looks like this: Access to college-level
education will be free for everyone; the residential college campus
will become largely obsolete; tens of thousands of professors will lose
their jobs; the bachelor’s degree will become increasingly irrelevant;
and ten years from now Harvard will enroll ten million students. - See
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http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=1352#sthash.pDUKS4rY.dpuf