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Stephen Downes

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This article is completely focused on the United States, so it can't be said to make a statistical case for anything, but despite that, what Clay Shirky says here is right: "What the mega-university story gets right is that online education is transforming higher education. What it gets wrong is the belief that transformation must end with consolidation around a few large-scale institutions." Having said that, while the article suggests that 'everybody' thought a few mega-universities would take over the entire market, in reality very few people ever thought that, and even fewer said it.

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