Hi,
Do you think higher education will still be based around matriculating to an expensive university or will fundamentally change in the near term future? I’d appreciate any thoughts or links you might have.
I’d also like to know what you think people will do to maintain career and life skills. Do you think people will be able to access “knowledge packs” of some type on demand on the Internet? For example, if you want to learn Spanish?
I hope I get more than one reply 
No way am I getting one of those yucky upload sockets put in the back of my neck like in ‘The Matrix’…
Well I definitely think it’s going to evolve, it has too, the model is becoming to expensive to sustain. Something is going to have to give. I think there will be more online classes perhaps and more colleges closing or merging together.
There seems to be no end in sight as to what people will pay per year for college. I thought once it got to a total cost of $50K a year that that would pretty much be the ceiling. Clearly, I was wrong as even schools such as WF are in the $60K plus a year club. Don’t get wrong I love WF but my son goes to FSU, an in-state school for us, for less than one third of what WF costs and there is no way in hell WF is worth three times what FSU costs.
So we are way past $60K a year with no end in sight for the elite schools. Where will it end? $100K a year? $150K a year? If the job market is uncertain how on earth can anyone justify those kinds of annual costs?
Many of the colleges themselves are spending heavily. Even the current list price tuition at many elite colleges are considerably lower than what they spend per student. But is the $157,659 spent by Yale on a student worth that much more than the $11,833 spent by Truman State on a student?
@GMTplus7 I thought our foreheads will read mini-DVDs…(you press the disc on the forehead, Spanish mastered)… I forget which movie.