Tony Hirst has a new blog post on lifelong learning by subscription. He suggests a program in which alumni can purchase a yearly subscription to new material related to the courses they took while at an institution. The alumni benefits from getting new and updated information and the institution taps into potentially significant revenue. From the blog post:
It never ceases to amaze me that we don’t see degrees as the start of continual process of professional education. Instead, we produce clumpy, clunky courses that are almost necessarily studied out of context (in part because they require you take out 100 hours, or 150 hours, or 300 hours) of study. Rather than give everyone drip feed CPD for an hour or two a week, or ten to twenty minutes a day, daily feed learning style, we try to flog them courses at Masters level, maybe, several years after they graduate…
