A Selected Reading List on the Future of Higher Education
Disruptive Innovation & Higher Education
- Clayton Christensen Wants to Transform Capitalism. Jeff Howe, Wired, 02/12/2013
- Clay Christensen: Higher Education Is ‘On The Edge Of The Crevasse’. Max Nisen, Business Insider, 02/12/2013
- How Disruption Can Help Colleges Thrive. Clayton Christensen, The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription req’d.), 09/30/2013
- Innovation Imperative: Change Everything. Online Education as an Agent of Transformation. Clayton Christensen, The New York Times, 11/01/2013
- Harvard Size Ambitions: Minerva Strives for Affordable Elitism. Anya Kamenetz, The New York Times, 11/01/2013
- College Unbound: the Future of Higher Education and What it Means for Students. Jeffrey Selingo, The Knewton Blog, 11/05/2013
MOOCs & Online Education
- Academics Are Down on MOOCs. Business Schools Aren’t. Patrick Clark, Businessweek, 01/16/2014
- With Open Platform, Stanford Seeks to Reclaim MOOC Brand. Steve Kolowich, The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription req’d.), 11/04/2013.
- 10 Things I’ve Learned (So Far) from Making a Meta-MOOC. Cathy Davidson, Hybrid Pedagogy, 1/16/2014
- Harvard Business School Launching Online Learning Initiative. Louis Lavelle & erin Zlomek, Businessweek, 10/09/2013
- Google’s Boss and a Princeton Professor Agree: College is a Dinosaur. Peter Coy, Businessweek, 09/13/2013
- Ben Nelson: the Man Who Would Overthrow Harvard: Can the Minerva Project do to Ivy league Universities What Amazon Did to Borders? Matthew Kaminski, The Wall Street Journal (subscription req’d.), 08/09/2013
- The Opportunities–and Risks–in the MOOC Business Model. Geoffrey Fowler, The Wall Street Journal (subscription req’d.), 10/15/2013
- An Early Report Card on Massive Open Online Courses. Geoffrey Fowler, The Wall Street Journal (subscription req’d.), 10/08/2013
- MBA market faces winds of change. Della Bradshaw, The Financial Times, 1/26/2014
- Grade Change: Tracking Online Education in the United States, 2013 (free download). Elaine Allen & Jeff Seaman, Babson Survey Research Group, 2014
- Teaching Revolution Gathers Pace. FT.com 3/9/2014
Higher Education Costs & Affordability
- The Rising Cost of Not Going to College. Pew Research Center. 02/11/2014
- Times Topic: Tuition (contains links to various NYT articles on college costs). The New York Times, 2014.
- As price of college rises, how will higher education evolve to be affordable? Ray Suarez & Jeff Selingo, PBS NewsHour, 10/23/2013
- Google’s Boss and a Princeton Professor Agree: College is a Dinosaur. Peter Coy, Businessweek, 09/13/2013
- Top Issues Facing Higher Education in 2014. John Ebersole, Forbes, 01/13/2014.
- MIT’s President: Better, More Affordable Colleges Start Online. L. Rafael Reif (MIT President), Time, 10/26/2013
- Richard Vetter and Christopher Denhart: How the College Bubble Will Pop. Richard Vedder & Christopher Denhart, The Wall Street Journal (subscription req’d.) 01/01/2014
- Utopian Pasts and Futures. Nicholas Dirks (Chancellor UC Berkeley), The Huffington Post, 01/22/2014
- Peter Salovey: ‘The Challenge Is That College Education Costs A Lot.‘ Peter Salovey (Yale President), The Huffington Post, 01/22/2014
- Tuition Increases Slow Down, but There’s More to College Affordability. Beckie Supiano, The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription req’d.), 10/23/2013
- Trends in College Pricing. The College Board. 2013
- Using Salary Prospects to Choose a College Major. The Wall Street Journal, 3/17/2014
Recent Books on the Future of Higher Education
- The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself. Glenn Reynolds, Encounter Books, 2014.
- Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. Clayton Christensen, McGraw-Hill, 2008.
- College (Un)bound: the Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students. Jeffrey Selingo, New Harvest, 2013. In ZSR’s collection. LA227.4 .S46 2013
- The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of the University from the Inside Out. Clayton Christensen, Jossey-Bass, 2011. In ZSR’s collection. LA227.4 .C525 2011
- Higher Education in the Digital Age. William Bowen, Princeton Univ. Press, 2013. In ZSR’s collection. LB2395.7 .B67 2013
- Higher Education in America. Derek Bok, Princeton Univ. Press, 2013 . In ZSR’s collection. LA227.4 .B665 2013
- College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be. Andrew Delbanco, Princeton Univ. Press, 2012. In ZSR’s collection. LA227.4 .D455 2012
- Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Josipa Roksa, Univ. of Chicago Press, 2010. In ZSR’s collection. LA227.4 .A78 2011