The competency-based education marketplace eschews the bundled approach of traditional degrees, instead promising to produce workers adept in just the right skills employers want. Education expert Ryan Craig believes that unbundling could destroy all but a handful of colleges and universities.
Harvard Medical School recently made news by announcing "major" changes in its curriculum. Professors will "flip" the classroom, giving students access to the lectures in advance of class - so that professors and students can use precious time together to foster deeper learning, rather than simply to transmit content.
Unbundling is a hot topic in higher education. There's a book about it, College Disrupted, by Ryan Craig and The Chronicle of Higher Education started the year with the launch of Re:Learning, an ongoing special report on the new education landscape. But will people or institutions buy what's getting unbundled?
In recent months, we have witnessed the success of books and articles predicting massive shifts in the way students will experience and complete post-secondary education. Costs will be reduced and outcomes improved, writers argue, when higher ed is unbundled, meaning students pick and choose from...
ProSky announced today that it raised a $2.3 million seed round led by Lightbank to further develop its product and invest in marketing.
Galvanize, a Denver-based computer-coding school, plans to open a campus in Phoenix next fall, creating a new pipeline of tech-savvy workers intended to help meet the Valley's corporate needs.
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Author of College Disrupted, Ryan Craig, discusses the impact of "unbundling" on the future of higher education
Higher education is being dramatically changed ("disrupted") by market forces in ways that will (and should) fundamentally alter the services that colleges deliver and the programs that prospective students pursue. Ultimately, the value of higher education to students and to society will grow. More immediately, however, this disruption will appear...
