Higher Ed as we know it will fade

Key factors in the USA:

• State and Federal funding of Higher Ed is on the way out
• Students are left to foot the bill
• Maturation of the Internet makes the real time and delayed virtual experience acceptable
• Self-directed learning and open learning (outside the classroom) is becoming a viable alternative at an exponential rate, hence new models to assess prior learning has to be a top priority
• Universities have to appeal to a far different population that just 5 years ago
• Universities have to break free from the state controlled tuition structures and develop online tuition models independent of bricks and mortar logic.
• Exponential growth in executive salaries has to be curbed