Higher Education Is Not A Mixtape

Derek Newton, The Atlantic: Education
Tue, 01/27/2015 - 12:47pm

Higher Education Is Not a Mixtape

Will higher education go the way of music albums and cable TV? Is it inevitable that the Internet will break apart degrees and colleges? Some entrepreneurs think so. Fortunately, they are wrong. It’s true that both cable TV and record albums have been "unbundled." By providing smaller units (individual songs and shows) on the Internet, they’ve offered customers lower prices, more content, and more options.

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