Digital Delights

"Although the global apocalypse did not occur on 21 December 2012, the year 2012 was full of apocalyptic headlines about the end of the university as we know it.

Three main drivers have been and still are fuelling these predictions: the worldwide massification of higher education, the increasing use of information and communication technology in teaching and the delivery of education, and the ongoing globalisation of higher education.

These developments will make the traditional university obsolete in 2038. At least, that’s what some want us to believe.

The massification of higher education worldwide – even more than the massification in Western Europe, the United States and Japan in the post-war period – demands new and more efficient types of delivery."