Acerca do futuro das universidades

"Increasingly, we believe university leaders will challenge the university as a whole, and individual departments, to answer the question, ‘What’s so special about you?’. In other words, universities and departments will need to justify their existence – just ticking over won’t be good enough.
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4. Much of the value added won’t be content
As content becomes ubiquitous and, in each area, the world’s leading universities or authorities become its providers, the content of a course will cease to be a decisive factor. Instead, it will be a matter of what a university and its faculty build around the content – for example, the quality of teaching  and mentorship, the nature of facilitated dialogue between students (which could be global), or indeed the type of assessment and the path from university into the labour market. There is tremendous room here for innovation which universities can embark on right away, with limited risk.
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8. As the monopoly over awarding degrees breaks down, universities need to consider their true value
Generally-speaking, universities were founded to be regional or national institutions, but they find themselves operating, thanks to the mobility of talent and the ubiquity of technology, in a global market. The power to award a degree is conferred by state or national governments and the restrictions on access to this power have enabled universities to protect their position – until now. With students shopping globally, with online degrees – which might be offered from any country – becoming widely available and with commercial organisations seeking the power too, this protection is weakening, perhaps vanishing.
As a result, universities will have to look at what they offer"

Trechos retirados de "An Avalanche is Coming"