Competing with New External Providers of Education
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Higher-education institutions may be skittish about the uncertainties associated with innovative uses of information technology to build learning communities. But a growing collection of external providers—mainly proprietary, for-profit institutions—are embracing them. A brief review of these external providers can yield several insights for higher education, allowing them to size up the competition, suggesting some concrete models of technology-based reforms worth borrowing, and even offering opportunities for collaboration as well as strategies for competition. Because the literature on these new providers is scant, we limit ourselves to discussing just a few examples.1
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