Very interesting article in Ken Steele's Eduvation blog yesterday.   He discusses six converging demographic, economic, technological and political trends affecting post-secondary institutions.   This includes the need for flexible learning (as student choose not to be physically on campus) and the move to grant credit for students completing MOOC's.

Here's an excerpt . . .

Lecture capture, hybrid delivery, online courses, smart textbooks, virtual libraries, game-based learning, and more: students and faculty may resist some of these new technologies for a while, but escalating public demands for efficiency and access make the overall trend inescapable. Over the next decade or two, these emerging technologies will transform undergraduate education for many students, and the campus will become steadily more virtualized.

Worth a read:  http://eduvation.ca/2013/09/peak-campus/