The big question for universities going forward is this: Can control of credentialing last for long without control of knowledge? If a great many people learn from Sebastian Thrun and Udacity how to create a search engine, and if some of those are very good search engines, might not the most successful students simply point to their work as a sufficient indicator of their coding chops? Who needs a credential when they can use a simple URL to show potential employers not just what they’re capable of but what they have already achieved?
— The Great Unbundling of the University - Alan Jacobs - Technology - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse)
