Universities will be ‘irrelevant’ by 2020

27th April 2009

Academic literature, Social networking2 Comments

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It used to be publish or perish. Now it seems to be teach with technology or terminate.

Slashdot picked up this report last week which seems to be a recurring theme of late. Disruptive innovation will surely have an effect, and those institutions that don’t wise up before the tipping point will likely have an uncertain future.