Technology is forcing higher education to
change. Some experts predict that disruptive forces will lead to the end of the
campus-life experience for students as institutions move to new ways of delivering
content.
“It’s a business model that just might
work, especially in geographic locations students favor,” the author wrote.
“Grand Cayman is awfully nice this time of year.”
A strategy to reimage college buildings is
already underway, according to Anthony Flint, author and fellow at the Lincoln
Institute of Land Policy. He cited an experiment at Bridgewater State
University in Massachusetts where dormitory space is being used for lectures and
a “tinkering space” being tested by the University of Utah as two examples in
an article for The Atlantic.
“It’s a fascinating rethinking of the
historic model of institutions cloistered behind ivy-covered walls,” Flint
wrote. “What seems to be equally true is that all the tiers of higher
education—elite privates, publics, community colleges—seem to be looking at
this reboot. MIT, Princeton, Caltech, Chicago, all are reassessing the
composition of the physical campus, trying to anticipate the brave new world.”
