Friday, January 29, 2016

From Vox: How Amazon could destroy college as we know it

I like to post the occasional piece about how college is being transformed, both due to new technologies, a business model that see profit in the enterprise, and a growing sense that the current model does not quite fit the needs of a rapidly changing working population. No surprise that Jeff Bezos is in the middle of it.

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For years, pundits have speculated that online instruction could begin to overtake traditional higher education, but too often have offered few details about how this would happen. Already, however, you can see a path through which tech companies could gain a foothold in the higher ed market.
Here's one scenario — told through the vantage point of Amazon's Jeff Bezos in 2030. I don't know if it's going to happen, but as you'll see in the footnotes, Amazon is already making moves that could suggest it would be a potent competitor to existing colleges and universities.