A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges

Students starting school this year may be part of the last generation for which "going to college" means packing up, getting a dorm room and listening to tenured professors. Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet. The business model that sustained private U.S. colleges cannot survive.

By Zephyr Teachout

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/11/AR2009091104312.html

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