Unbundling
Over the past few years, we’ve heard recurrent calls and/or predictions that higher education will soon be “unbundled”. What does this term mean, exactly? It’s a metaphor that’s been used in more than one way. The unbundling allusion is mostly to the music industry which has seen technology allow consumers to unbundle its main product (albums) into smaller discrete chunks (songs), but there are also allusions here to the cable TV industry and to journalism. Universities, it is argued, provide
May 25, 2012
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