Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Competency based credentials



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This guy is predicting that universities, those bastions of socialism, are likely to get whacked by disruptive technology.

[link]Now Christensen and his co-author Eyring, an administrator at Brigham Young University-Idaho, write that higher education is
next in line for transformation. Universities have been protected by the prestige of their brands and the lack of any real
competition. But online learning is that catalytic technology du jour, they argue, and universities will be committing "slow
institutional suicide" if they fail to revolutionize their classroom-based models of instruction.

http://chronicle.com/article/Innovations-in-Higher/131424/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

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