by Henry Blodget, Australia Business Insider
You have predicted — which is staggering — that half of universities will go bankrupt in the next 15 years.
Clay Christensen: Yes. Everybody else thinks that it’s absolutely crazy. But I think I’ll be right. I have made an observation that relates to this. It is as follows: Many of society’s most important and vexing problems were created by unnamed people in the past who decided unilaterally to combine things that should be separate and to separate things that should be together…. In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn’t learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/clay-christensen-on-disruption-theory-apple-2014-11
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