Talk of 'unbundling education' is surfacing again. "David Shoemaker, eCornell, highlights a higher ed blog post about the imminent unbundling of courses from curriculum both from colleges offering degrees and entities that do not offer degrees. Unbundling meaning: '...the notion that students could cobble together a curriculum that includes courses designed and delivered by a variety of different institutions." I've never really seen widespread support for unbundling, but I predicted it way back in future because, eventually, education consumers (for lack of a better word) will acquire enough choice. But unbundling, of course, means a lot of things - not just separating courses from programs, but labs from lectures, grading from graduation. Unbundling means an end to the monopoly - which is why there hasn't been a lot of support for it, and why it will eventually die (or the monopoly will be given to publishers, whatever comes first).
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