The Disruptive Business Model for Higher Education is Open Source

How do you make money from something that is free? Borrow some moves from the commercial open source playbook.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are disrupting the higher education marketplace the way free and open source software disrupted the world of proprietary software more than two decades ago. The disruption in higher education, however, will be different in two key ways:

1. It will happen twice as fast.
2. It may spark a competition far different from the one you expect.  

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