Digital Students, Industrial-Era Universities

Digital Students, Industrial-Era Universities - By Arthur Levine, June 14, 2010, Inside Higher ED

The American university, like the nation’s other major social institutions — government, banks, the media, health care — was created for an industrial society. Buffeted by dramatic changes in demography, the economy, technology, and globalization, all these institutions function less well than they once did. In today’s international information economy, they appear to be broken and must be refitted for a world transformed.