Jeff’s Blog RSS

Will elite universities grant credit for MOOC’s by their own professors? asks Jeff Selingo. We’re about to see the tight hold higher education has on credit undergo a well-overdue stress test.

The two biggest benchmarks of success—U.S. News rankings and AAU membership—are built on exclusion and warp college behavior in manifold ways. Let’s find an alternative, writes Jeff Selingo.

In the debate over the price of higher education, college leaders still seem to be missing the point, writes Jeff Selingo. The public wants to know what it’s paying for.

My op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times about the future of higher ed produced many reactions, both positive and negative, from readers. As I told several of them, 800 words is not nearly enough space to debate this important subject. So here are some additional thoughts based on what I didn’t get to write and [...]

The news last week that Harvard was joining MIT in its experiment to offer massive online courses to the world for free had some in higher ed reaching for the Maalox and others scratching their heads. The most common questions I heard from those in higher ed: Should I worry? Should I copy them? Given [...]

This is the time of year when high-school seniors across the country are making decisions about where to go to college. For some students and their families, so much time, effort, and anxiety is spent picking the right school. But it seems so little time is spent trying to figure out what to major in. [...]

What do employers want in college graduates? One view is that they want balance. In this continuing debate over the main purpose of a college degree (training vs. broad education), I read a very thoughtful interview with the former president and CEO of IBM in the latest issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine. You can find [...]

So it’s official: I’m writing a book about the future of higher ed. The announcement was listed in Publishers Marketplace earlier this week. The working title is College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students. Given that a large part of the book will describe the coming disruptions to the [...]

Not a week seems to go by where I don’t get an invite to a conference or meeting on the future of higher ed. I’m headed to another one in California next week. Any talk about the future of higher ed inevitably turns to online education. The Internet seems to be the simple answer to [...]

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about the coming disruption of the higher-ed system and asked if traditional institutions were prepared. The item generated more than 60 comments, lots of responses on Twitter, and a few e-mails and calls. There were plenty who thought that all this talk of disruption is overblown. Others [...]