Monday, December 10, 2018

A Fantastic 'Breaking News' Filtered Through Higher Ed Anxieties - Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed

It is not that much of stretch to think of the future of universities through the lens of the newspaper industry. All of us are wondering how traditional residential institutions will navigate the digitally enabled shift to online and low-residency learning. Are residential campuses analogous to print newspapers? Is online learning analogous to news websites and apps? What we learn in Breaking News is that the smart people working in the newspaper industry did not see the digital disruption coming, and even when they understood the implications of digital they were unable to find a new economic model to replace the old one. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/fantastic-breaking-news-filtered-through-higher-ed-anxieties