Are we witnessing the twilight of American higher education as we have known it since 1945?

Rupert I founded the University of Heidelberg in 1386 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Distance learning... MOOCs... for-profit universities... private providers of individual courses... some say this is the next great revolution in higher education that will finally "pop the tuition bubble."  Others wonder if it's just "crap."

http://chronicle.com/article/The-False-Promise-of-the/136305/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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