Higher ed institutions need reimagining, not just repairing Sponsored by QatarFoundation
But we have been here before. The above quote was written in 2010, during the last global economic crisis, by Harvard’s Clayton Christensen. Christensen called for “disruptive innovation” to sweep through American universities, arguing that the business model that brought them to global prestige was becoming fragile. His voice was of many from a wide range of sectors making the case that higher education was in need of a significant transformation.
Globally, in recent years, some universities ran experiments with MOOCs and some offered limited remote online summer classes. Those experiments may have helped many institutions make the nearly overnight switch to remote teaching to enable continuity of learning, but for sure, something that quickly was learned is that those are not permanent solutions. Merely taking an existing course and putting lectures onto Zoom, however, isn’t the kind of fundamental change Christensen was talking about.
Beth Akers and Stuart Butler from the Brookings Institution argued that college should come with a “money back guarantee” as a market-based solution to temper skyrocketing costs and student debt. In some countries, income-contingency-loans were enacted as a way to link repayments to future employment. Even in the U.S.
Andrew Yang used his recent presidential campaign as a platform to argue for Universal Basic Income. Automation and AI were about to shred the social contract by destroying the employment prospects of the working and middle class; government would need to provide no-strings cash to individuals for life. Many thought it was fantasy. “The Robot Apocalypse Has Been Postponed”, scoffed Ross Douthat in the.
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