Have a read and see what you think – David Wiley is no mug. Free text books are definitely coming. Any content you want is already freely accessible. The notion of face to face teaching is becoming less relevant as technology improves and attitudes change. If the piece of paper at the end of the course is our only real hook, what’s to stop students going to where the service is better.
“Institutions that don’t adapt, he says, risk losing students to institutions that do. The warning applies to community colleges and ivy-covered universities, says Wiley, who is a professor of psychology and instructional technology at Brigham Young University.”
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705298649/Universities-will-be-irrelevant.html?pg=1