Ebook: An avalanche is coming: Higher education and the revolution ahead

IPPA, 2013. — 72 p.This wide-ranging essay aims to provoke creative dialogue and challenge complacency in our traditional higher education institutions.'Just as globalisation and technology have transformed other huge sectors of the economy in the past 20 years, in the next 20 years universities face transformation.'With a massive diversification in the range of providers, methods and technologies delivering tertiary education worldwide, the assumptions underlying the traditional relationship between universities, students and local and national economies are increasingly under great pressure - a revolution is coming.Under the surface.
The components of the successful 20th-century university.
Unbundling, or the new competition.
Seizing the future.
Implications.
The aftermath.