"The impact would likely happen slowly. Many disruptive innovations take a generation for their full effect to be realized. It’s likely higher education would be particularly slow because of the loyalty of alumni and the dual conservatism of employers that hire from colleges and parents who often help foot the tuition bill.
Despite those caveats, there is plenty of evidence that the disruption is taking hold. Even as enrollments in accredited colleges and universities have shrunk consistently since 2010, enrollment in online learning continues to rise. Nearly 20% of students are now enrolled in a mostly online program. And many students enroll in unaccredited online programs, as well as last-mile blended-learning bootcamp programs, which are not counted in these statistics." Read more