Zoom University is in session: decoding higher ed’s online future

<p>Text me! +1 (917) 540-3402</p><p>Most years, this time in August is a boom for Target’s dorm décor section and purveyors of shower caddies and anyone selling that John Belushi <em>Animal House</em> poster. But 2020 isn’t like most years.</p><p>This year, higher education across the country will take place online, as COVID-19 has laughed in the face of the traditional residential college model. For anyone hoping to win back the beer pong championship belt, that’s devastating. For everyone else...it isn’t.</p><p>Moving to online, tech-forward education for the masses could be a net good for students—it makes degrees more flexible, more specialized, and more accessible, according to today’s guest: Dan Rosensweig, the president and CEO of Chegg.</p><p>But Dan thinks making higher education truly work for all means doing more than just sticking with online learning post-coronavirus. College degrees remain a fast-track ticket to upward mobility—in order to meet the needs of all who want them, we need a total reset of the industry.&nbsp;</p><p>But how do you reset an industry worth $700 billion a year in the U.S. alone? It won’t be easy. And not all institutions will survive.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Listen now to hear how we move forward.</strong></p>