The University Unbound: Can Higher Education Compete and Survive the Age of “Free” and Open Learning?

Innovators and entrepreneurs are using technologies to make freely available the things for which universities charge significant money. “MOOCs” or free online courses, lecture podcasts, low-cost off-the-shelf general education courses, online tutorials and digital collections of open learning resources are disrupting higher education’s hold on knowledge, expertise, instruction and credentialing.