Post Corona: Higher Ed | No Mercy / No Malice

All in all, my bet for an emerging model in higher ed coming out of this crisis will look something like:

This realization will push most students to delay fall matriculation, or attend a virtual school over Zoom or some other platform. If they do the latter, they certainly won’t want to pay even a fraction of traditional tuition. If a virtual academic year costs 1/10th of the normal tuition, the school would need to enroll at least 10x the number of s... See more

Like mass media and mass commerce, the average university is on the brink of collapse. Its structure is a rotting legacy of the Industrial Age. For years, anybody who wanted to learn on their own lacked the means to do so. Now, anybody with an internet connection has access to information. Harvard and Stanford will be okay, but dark days are ahead ... See more

But the college bundle has always more than the sum of its individual parts. In COVID era, colleges are forced to unbundle, so now college is competing with other unbundled alternatives.